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Tuesday 20 December 2005

A 'Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future' [subtitle of 'Beyond Good and evil'],entails the existence of Future-Philosophers and philosophical Futurists.

In section 203 of 'BG&E', Nietzsche outlines five Herculean tasks necessary to test the mettle of 'New Philosophers';

1.Initiate antithetical evaluations.

2.To revalue and reverse 'eternal values'.

3.Fix the constraints,and fasten the knots which will compel millennia to take NEW paths.

4.To teach man the future of man as his WILL,as dependent on a human will.

5.To prepare for vast hazardous enterprises and collective experiments in discipline and breeding.

Nietzsche himself had done much for the first two tasks,and had prepared the soil for the remaining three.Of his successors,Heidegger was one who added much to those latter three tasks.

"Our faith that Europe will become more virile".[Nietzsche]

Heidegger described Nietzsche as the con-summation of Western Philosophy,being both the last of the old and the first of the new.Nietzsche stands in the 'Moment',Janus headed,surveying both past and future instantaneously.

In 1929,oppressed by the dark clouds of Nihilism,Martin Heidegger began his whole-hearted engagement with the philosophy of Nietzsche.Alongside this dialogue,Heidegger elaborated a Neopagan vision which incorporated within it the will of a European destiny.

"We few of many who again dare to live in a demoralised world,we Pagans in faith:we are probably the first to grasp what a Pagan faith is:-to have to imagine higher creatures than man,but beyond good and evil;to have to consider all being higher as also being immoral.We believe in Olympus-and NOT in the 'Crucified' ".[Nietzsche,WM,1034]

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