Will, Invention, Evaluation

Inventiveness seems to have no distinctive value in either Plato's "invention" of a collective ideal, or in that of Spinoza, or of Kant, among others. The lack of appreciation of inventiveness in Spinoza's system is conspicuous, given that his program aims at a Mode's realization of its participation in divine creativity. Regardless, the evaluation of Inventiveness is not inconceivable, i. e. novelty is difference with respect to some given, the quantification of which can ground an evaluation. For example, here, Will is the principle of Diversification in Experience, so quantity of Will can formulate degree of innovation. On that basis, the values of undeniably influential inventions, e. g. the wheel, the telescope, even Plato's Republic, can be codified, and creative behavior can be promoted.