Author(s)

Kuang-Ming Wu

Emeritus, Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI, USA.

Being creative revolutionizes things toward novelty. And any revolution is messy, quiet or noisy, bloody or no. Novelty upsets the existing order of things, and so being creative is quite topsy-turvy, impossible to chart in advance. This essay adumbrates such messy creativity in five ways: one, being creative is not all-chaotic, two, being creative is not all-arbitrary, three, being creative is repetitive, four, being creative is graded, and finally, how necessary being creative is. This essay treats this theme of being creative never treated in any essay anywhere, yet the theme is absolutely indispensable for being alive as human that is part and parcel of being creative. Without being creative we are reduced to mere subhuman existence.

Revolution, Chaos, Arbitrary, Repetition, Grades, Life

Wu, K. (2016) Being Creative. Open Journal of Philosophy, 6, 239-246. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2016.63022.