This is time
for human creativity to be applied to the right thing - helping us slow the pace (and eventually reverse) rapid climate change.
In the next 10 years, technology holds unimaginable possibilities
for human creativity — as long as they are accessible to the masses.
The growing connectedness of the world and the rising contribution of scientists and engineers from all continents have broadened the possibilities
for human creativity
I think we are at a point in history where we need a creative revolution — a manifesto
for human creativity that moves us out of industrial revolution view of humanity to really an artisan view of the human species.
Slywotzky does eventually admit (in the book's coda) that «there is no formula for demand any more than there is a formula
for human creativity.»
Not exact matches
What sets
humans apart is love, i.e. our feeling
for justice, our
creativity in the face of challenges, our ability to empathize deeply and respond wisely.
For this post, I'll be covering how to build great links from local authorities — which time and time again has proven to require
human creativity and leveraging relationships.
We'll celebrate design
for its own sake, but our primary aim is to focus on how melding the
creativity talent of great designers with the capital,
human resources and execution capabilities of large firms can to achieve distinctive, high - impact business results.
In its broadest sense, design may be defined as the rigorous application of
human intellect and
creativity in the search
for beautiful, efficient and sustainable solutions.
The search
for a balance between personal initiative and the pursuit of collective goals - based on a celebration of
human diversity and
creativity - must open the way to new models.
Camus is confronted with a dilemma: he does not wish to baptize history because history has resulted in the reign of terror; he does want to advocate absolute values independent of time,
for that would reconstitute the «old god» that negates
human creativity.
His refusal to accept either an «objective» or a «subjective» art is equivalent to the rebel's search
for a value that transcends history but which does not diminish
human freedom and
creativity.
Camus» hesitance to have a God responsible
for beauty is his objection to the «old god» that led to the devaluation of
human creativity.
One could turn to many artists
for a precedent
for a newly evangelised culture comprising imaginative activities that are open to the transcendent, a culture that integrates
human creativity in art, literature and science with the call to holiness, to a life that acknowledges truth, goodness and beauty as having their source in the divine.
What did the new life mean
for the first Christians in the realms of
human desire, passion,
creativity, knowledge, and love?
Wieman may have had two motives
for his transition from a cosmic vision of divine
creativity toward one focused on
creativity in
human experience.
Music is a highly subjective thing and is evidence
for the amazing complexity of
human creativity, but not
for God.
For this reason, future
human creativity occupies a preeminent place in our pursuit of the comprehensive telos.
Perhaps pursuit of the maximal
human creativity should be constrained by the following principle of environmental respect: A purpose that reduces natural
creativity relative to some alternative
for the decision in question is a violation of the maximal divine good unless the purpose is required in order to maximize
human creativity in the long run.8 All implications considered, I expect that maximizing
human creativity itself includes adherence to this principle.
The conclusion here concerns the teleological order within the world as a principle
for practical deliberation and, in that sense, asserts a coincidence between maximizing
creativity in the world as such and maximizing future
human good.
On this conclusion, the comprehensive purpose as a principle
for moral decisions may be formulated: maximize
creativity in the
human future as such.
In one sense the discovery of
human individuality was necessary
for the development of
human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of
human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make
for unfettered
creativity in the various fields.
Human moral responsibility is thus grounded,
for Kaplan, in the Divine cosmic process of organicity, organicity being the key element in the overall process of
creativity.
Niebuhr held that Augustine's value
for the Christian political thinker lay in the interpretation of
human selfhood which enabled Augustine to «view the heights of
human creativity and the depths of
human destructiveness, which avoids the errors of moral sentimentality and cynicism, and their alternate corruptions of political systems of both secular and Christian thinkers.
It opened and still opens up
for humanity new possibilities of compassionate understanding,
creativity and
human fellowship.
The Holy See might also have taken a leaf from John Paul's 1991 social encyclical Centesimus Annus and boldly urged the view that
human beings are the basic resource
for development, because the source of wealth in the modern world is
human creativity.
If we assume, as we presently do, that the primary goal of both God and concerned
humans is to maximize freedom (
creativity)
for the greatest number, it is the following query with which we must be concerned: Do continuous divine persuasion and occasional
human coercion, in conjunction, better maximize freedom than would continuous divine persuasion alone?
But God's primary goal is
for each of us to be as fully self - creative as possible, even if such
creativity results in
human oppression, and this is why God would not unilaterally keep self - creative individuals from abusing the freedom of others even if this could be done.
And if our children disappear, the untold potential
for insight,
for creativity, and
for love and compassion of which the
human spirit is capable, would vanish from the stage of the unfolding cosmic drama.
To be a person is to be rational and loving and creative, and so
human work —
human creativity — is dignified
for the Christians as it never was
for the Greek and Roman philosophers.
The unique factor about the present situation is that the vast
human potentiality
for destructiveness (in blocked
creativity) is now armed with fiendish instruments of mass annihilation.
Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of
creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the
human vocation of
creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated
for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.
As creatures made in the image of the triune God who creates ex nihilo,
human beings have the capacity
for creativity.
Process theology undertakes a search
for an alternative to the Augustinian understanding of love and being in which the freedom and
creativity of
human loves have their place, and in which the love of God is understood in his involvement with a real history.
The combination of sentience in natural entities, be they electrons, cells, or
human beings, together with the lure beyond themselves
for their possible futures is the source of their
creativity.
A theology of redemption combines affirmation of
human creativity in the purpose of God and deliverance from
human sinfulness to release
humans for their vocation of cooperation with God in continuous new
creativity.
For the world here is seen solely or predominantly as material «out there» to be molded by
human creativity.
And even with the «best» of motives, the unintended consequences of moral
creativity are often discontinuous with what is most advantageous
for human betterment.
Thus,
creativity - esse is not only the prius
for the
human world, but also
for the most remote black hole,
for a comet's energy, and
for the photons that travel billions of years in the vast voids between the galaxies.
While it is easiest to grasp the prius of
creativity - esse in the
human case, a process metaphysics sees at least a faint glimmer of subjectivity (which
for process thinkers does not imply consciousness!)
We
humans have «life,» «decision» «subjectivity,» and «enjoyment» only in the process of concrescence.7 Thus,
creativity's role in accounting
for the concrescence of an actual entity has a certain priority over its role in accounting
for the transition between actual entities, although a full understanding of either role requires reference to the other.
Previously we noted how
creativity - esse may be said to provide a «depth»
for the activities of
humans and nature.
It is in fact a process that has been doing one
for centuries, a process I might add that involves the incessant unfolding, with all its
creativity and contradictions, of the
human spirit into the wider horizon of history.
As
for Jesus himself, his
human power of imagination was fully alive and in harmony with what we may by analogy call his divine imagination or
creativity.
If you'll permit me to leave this thought: I have concluded after many years of «church hopping» to finally «no church» that what we need in the «church» is not anything «new» as stated in your last paragraph but rather a «liberation from»... I conclude that the church (organized or free) considers this return to liberty (brought about by Christ) as a legitimate «next step» in the history of «church» but that is firstly a lie and secondly opens up a door
for even more destructive
creativity by
humans.
Instead of profit maximization
for self or a small group, service to all would be a powerful motivation
for creativity and a fair distribution of natural resources and of the fruit of
human labour.
How can goals
for democracy and
for democratic education in the domain of
human creativity be formulated?
For this reason, Christian teaching rightly rejects a quietism that leaves our
human activity and
creativity out of God's revelatory vision.
Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility
for the means of production, as well as free
human creativity in the economic sector.
Maleness and femaleness are essential components of our unique dignity as
human beings created in the image of God,
for through these realities we participate in the divine
creativity and its fruitfulness.