Reading Group session one: Divine inspiration or craftmanship? Creativity in Aristotle, Plato and Kant
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
- Location: Conservatorium Meeting Room, Rm 213, Schulz Building
- Cost: Free
- Contact: Rita Horanyi Senior Admin Officer Research - JM Coetzee Centre
- Email: rita.horanyi@adelaide.edu.au
Is creativity the product of divinely inspired ecstasy or the result of careful craftsmanship directed towards a specific goal? The work of genius or labour?
Plato and Aristotle argue for very different approaches to the concept of creativity and art, but both have been influential over the centuries. Join us for the first JMCCCP ‘The Creative Mind’ Reading Group, as we discuss three brief selections from Plato, Aristotle and Kant.
RSVP by Wed Oct 7th:
rita.horanyi@adelaide.edu.au
Download readings
- "The Ion," Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 3: Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras.Trans. Teginald E Allen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
- Selections from The Creativity Question, eds. Albert Rothenberg and Car R Hausman. Durham: Duke University Press, 1976: From Aristotle's Metaphysics in Ross W.D. (trans. and ed.), The Oxford Translation of Aristotle, Vol. 8, Oxford: Oxford University Press; From Kant, I., The Critique of Judgement, Meredith, J.C. (trans), Oxford: Oxford University Press.