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The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old

W. Norris Clarke

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780823229284

Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: March 2011

DOI: 10.5422/fso/9780823229284.001.0001

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The Creative Imagination as Treated in Western Thought

The Creative Imagination as Treated in Western Thought

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(p.209) Chapter 15 The Creative Imagination as Treated in Western Thought
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The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas
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W. Norris Clarke, SJ

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Fordham University Press
DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823229284.003.0015

This chapter discusses the relationship creative imagination has to the guidance and rule of reason, and what that relationship tells about the nature and dignity of the human person as an embodied spirit and image of God. The creative imagination is the incarnation of idea in matter. The role of the creative imagination is to be creative in expanding the arts and literature, technology, economy, politics, and culture. The only wise way of exercising the creative imagination is under the guidance and illumination of human reason.

Keywords:   creative imagination, Western thought, human dignity, arts and literature, human reason

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