Fully aware that language shapes reality, the very way in which process thinkers use the word «shape» instead of «determine» is deliberate, attempting to show that while partially molded by the totality of the environment, any entity is also
an instance of creativity.
If God is the supreme
instance of creativity and relatedness, then God's perfect power is supremely and eminently relational.
Perhaps the accent is not so much on creativity being a sufficient condition for novelty, such that
every instance of creativity must be novel, as that it is a necessary condition for novelty: There can not be any novelty without the actualization of initial aim in free responsiveness which requires subjectivity as the present instantiation of creativity.
Creativity does not explain why they occur or what form they take, but if they occur at all and regardless of what form they take, each will be
an instance of creativity, a fresh unity formed as a new togetherness of the antecedent many and offering itself as a member of the multiplicity of which any subsequent occasion must take account.
We may think of all the forms embodied in
each instance of creativity as abstractable from it, since creativity might equally have taken any other form so far as its being creativity is concerned.
Fundamentally they mean that God also is
an instance of creativity.
Unlike much of the inherited Western tradition, which has equated creativity with mentality and attributed it only to human beings, process thought considers anything actual at all
an instance of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we are aware of, human beings; some degree of mentality is present in no matter how rudimentary, even negligible, a form.
We might summarize the process understanding of God's perfection as the supreme
instance of creativity and relatedness.
In process thought, anything actual at all is
an instance of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we are aware of, human beings.
As an actual entity, God is
an instance of creativity — the universal substance and material cause.
I take it that the «self - creative unity of the universe» refers to the actual entity insofar as it is a particular
instance of creativity.
Both thinkers begin with a dynamic, radically indeterminate source of being, called creativity or being - itself, but proceed according to different models of creation: Tillich adopts the traditional dichotomy between an uncreated creator and created creatures, and identifies creativity with this creator, while Whitehead envisages a multiplicity of self - created creatures,
all instances of creativity, among whom God is chief.
It is not unimportant to note that Whitehead never says that creativity is reducible to actual entities (although it is nothing in itself): he always talks about the occasions being
instances of creativity and conditioning the transcendent creativity (Process 43).
Not exact matches
Metaphysical statements are, however, highly abstract, and they do not tell us what ideal for
creativity God proposes to any particular
instance of becoming.
They are all
instances of participation, process, or
creativity, «the universal
of universals characterizing ultimate matter
of fact» (PR 31).
which is his «particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 532); the» «superjective» nature
of God is the character
of the pragmatic value
of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent
creativity in the various temporal
instances» (PR 135).
Creativity, then, makes an adjustment to its immediate past in the sense that the nature and character
of each new
instance of self -
creativity undergo modification in conformity with the nature and character
of the past.
He may be said to include the totality
of creativity only in the sense
of everlastingly remaining an
instance of it
There is still, however, the same threefold character: (i) The «primordial nature»
of God is the concrescence
of a unity
of conceptual feelings... (ii) The «consequent nature»
of God is the physical prehension by God
of the actualities
of the evolving universe... (iii) The «superjective» nature10
of God is the character
of the pragmatic value
of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent
creativity in the various temporal
instances.
Another way
of arriving at the same conclusion is to note that Whitehead explicitly identifies the superjective nature as «the pragmatic value
of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent
creativity in the various temporal
instances» (PR 135).
«The «superjective» nature
of God is the character
of the pragmatic value
of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent
creativity in the various temporal
instances» (PR 135).
Naturally, the question about
creativity is a special
instance of the more general account which can be given
of Bergson's influence on Whitehead.
Instead
of being definite eternal objects, however, which can be modified only by being replaced by other definite eternal objects (or selected from an infinitely dense array
of eternal objects), it could be an indefinite, partially vague form by which
creativity was
instanced.
However, in proposing that agape is the principle
of creativity, Peirce attempted to show that specific
instances of spontaneity can be the responsibility
of an operative principle, agape, which specifically functions creatively.
Consequently, a civilized society is but one further instantiation, among a myriad
of such
instances,
of the ultimate
creativity which underlies the very process
of the world — it is the realization in human social experience
of the inherent principle
of «
creativity - one - many» at work in all things.
In this stage, education consists
of tapping the
creativity of which any living organism, anything actual at all, is an
instance; it is the stimulation
of the restless, ceaseless striving that characterizes life itself.
For the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact
of relevant experience» (351) 3 Some interpreters refer also to Whitehead's reference to the «superjective nature»
of God in Process and Reality: «The «superjective» nature
of God is the character
of the pragmatic value
of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent
creativity in the various temporal
instances» (88).4 In this case, however, the actual warrant lies again on page 351, as it is under the light
of that particular passage that the «superjective character» on page 88 is interpreted as a reference to the objectification
of the consequent nature.
For
instance, within its conceptual framework, it is unable to account for the appearance
of contingency,
creativity or unexpected novelty in the physical and biological universe.
Last season, for
instance, Ozil was widely praised for his brilliant skills and
creativity, with the stats showing him to be the most creative player in Europe with his tally
of stats and chances created.
For
instance, I'd always wanted to have a close - knit group
of friends, more
creativity in my work, and a lifestyle that would give me the leeway to write longer articles and books.
According to Albonetti, the Regional Council has provided resources such as financial and educational support, with the goal
of «supporting growth by appealing to our strengths, but also by turning weaknesses into opportunities, for
instance by capitalizing on the different forms
of creativity, knowledge, and skills within the territory and supporting new, globally competitive value chains for new market opportunities.»
However, this is something easily done at home (the sky's the limit in terms
of creativity and patterns), and WAY cheaper than buying them from Proenza Schouler for
instance!
And while sometimes that material was radically different from one to the other, I was overwhelmed to find commonality, for
instance, the same book in both places, «The Poetics
of The New American Poetry,» 1973... Which is emblematic
of so much that each think about: America, place, politics, the
creativity and fluidity
of language, how the same words can to be constantly reconstructed to describe anew... While language is essential to both practices, they share an incredible ability to transform language or imagery with equal grace into the poetics
of a purely visual yet rigorously embedded experience... The work is saturated with content.
For
instance, «BOOMI» mixes boom boxes, iPad apps, audio interfaces and dance performances with fair visitors in a «celebration
of technology,
creativity, physicality and art,» according to a release.
Each
of these seemingly insignificant
instances reminded me that free time spurs
creativity.
For
instance, if you are writing a cover letter for the position
of a special events manager, you will need to put in a lot
of creativity — because
creativity is part
of your work.