Method, Genius, Species

The standard contemporary focus in Philosophy on Epistemology, with its two main theories--Rationalism and Empiricism--accurately reflects that each has generally lost sight of their common origin--Method, varieties of which are presented in Discourse on Method and Novum Organum, their respective seminal works.  Likewise, but less explicitly defined, Plato's Method is Dialogical, and Aristotle's is Classification. Thus, not only Epistemology, but Morality, and Political Philosophy, as well, are Methodological, i. e. ways of acquiring Knowledge, determining Behavior, and organizing Society, respectively.  Now, when Nietzsche likens future Philosophers to Artists, he implicitly recognizes that Philosophy is fundamentally a Methodological activity.  However, in neither his recovery of his Dionysian principle, his Genealogical re-discovery of Master Morality, nor, his brief derivation of Will to Power from Will to Live, is that recognition explicit.  He, thus, misses an opportunity to link, such Artistry to the Species goals that inspire these innovative Philosophers, e. g. via Genius, as Kant conceives it.