Eastern and Western creativity of tradition
Western creativity is usually entrusted to the human imagination, regarded as a mental power capable of envisioning eternally original artefacts, while in the East creativity is entrusted to nature-in-the human, what Taoist philosophy calls qi, a spiritual power capable of reflecting the passing cha...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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2021
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Asian philosophy
Année: 2021, Volume: 31, Numéro: 4, Pages: 402-413 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Taoism
B Monism B Word B Imagination B Qi B Creativity B Dualism |
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| Résumé: | Western creativity is usually entrusted to the human imagination, regarded as a mental power capable of envisioning eternally original artefacts, while in the East creativity is entrusted to nature-in-the human, what Taoist philosophy calls qi, a spiritual power capable of reflecting the passing changes of nature in paintings, poems, and other forms of art. It is the intention of this paper to explore and elucidate these differences between the Western and Eastern conceptualizations of creativity, ending with a suggestion of one feature they may have in common. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2961 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2021.1933735 |