Friday, March 14, 2014

Philosophy and Language of the Future

Nietzsche's subtitle "Philosophy of the Future" primarily means 'Philosophizing at some later date', but, also, 'Values-Creation'.  For, as he proposes, historically subsequent Philosophy will be expressed in a Language 'of the Future', i. e. in Language that temporally precedes its object, of which there are three main varieties: projective, volitional, and prescriptive.  An example of the first is 'X will occur', and one of the second, 'I will do X', from each of which the third is distinguished, because it is a factor in the production of the Future, i. e. volitional 'I will do X' might allude to the production of the Future, while remaining, in itself, inessential to that process.  Clearly, Values-Creation, which aims to concretely determine behavior, is a species of the prescriptive variety of Language of the Future, a use of Language by Philosophers that departs from the long and established tradition in which it typically functions as a description the object of which is presumably 'eternal'.

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