Nietzsche on Metaphysics of Language

Friedrich Nietzsche was the first philosopher who gave a comprehensive criticism of European traditional metaphysics. In his critique, Nietzsche traced this metaphysics to its origin and revealed that language governed the traditional thinking of philosophy and played a crucial role in forming European metaphysics. He pointed out that the traditional metaphysics was a moralized substance fabricated by logic which was created by grammar. Its most typical manifestation was that the subject-predicate structure created the category of causality. Thus, essentially the traditional metaphysics was subject in full relief and a kind of metaphysics of language. Then he raised a hypothesis: language predetermined the development of philosophy and a philosopher's world outlook was predetermined by his language pedigree or category. Nietzsche brought up the problem of language as a key philosophical problem, which predicted the linguistic orientation of the modern Western philosophy.