Creativity is another rendering of Aristotelian ‘matter’ and of modern ‘neutral stuff’. But it is divested of the notion of passive receptivity, either of form, or of external relations. It is the pure notion of the activity conditioned by the objective immortality of the actual world—a world which is never the same twice, though always with the stable elements of divine ordering. Creativity is without a character of its own in exactly the same sense in which the Aristotelian matter is without a character of its own. It is that ultimate notion of the highest generality at the base of actuality. It cannot be characterized because all characters are more special than itself. But creativity is always found under conditions, and described as conditioned. The non-temporal act of all inclusi... (查看原文)
