Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Recreativity and Genius

Human Recreativity, i. e. which instantiates Divine Creativity, must have at its source Genius.  Kant attributes Genius to Nature, but his Dualism, unlike Spinoza's Pantheist Monism, presupposes a dichotomy between deity and Nature.  He also restricts the Recreativity to products of Art.  But that restriction is based on distinguishing products of Genius that are objects of contemplation, from those that are objects of potential use.  However, the essence of Creativity and Recreativity is that they bring something into being that has not previously existed.  So it is the distinction between Contemplation and Use that is inessential to Genius.  Indeed, functioning as an object of Contemplation, as a cultivation of Morality, as Kant characterizes it, could be classified as a use.

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