Wil, Creativity, Evaluation

Traditionally, the value of human Creativity, whether artistic or inventive, has been treated as fundamentally extrinsic, i. e. as subordinate to some greater principle. For example, for Kant, the maximum value attainable by Art is the occasion of a piece's symbolizing the Moral Good. However, that status of Art is based on Kant's privileging of Taste in the Genius-Taste combination that constitutes the creative process. Here, that combination is an instance of the infinitely variable Will-Comprehension interaction, of which that privileging is a special case. In other words, Kant's subordination of Creativity to his Moral principle is arbitrary, thereby suppressing any intrinsic value of the former.