ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with some general observations about creativity. There can be persons who are creative in all the different forms of the arts, as well as in all the great disciplines of inquiry, the market place, the military, recreation, religion, in one's family life, romance, transportation, in medicine, in everyday interactions, in desperate rescue attempts, and so on. The concept of creativity is very close to the concept of imagination, such that in most cases of when a person is creative, the authors assume that the person exercised her imagination in the creative act or process. The chapter considers works of creativity from the standpoint of this Platonic metaphysic. It also considers the works of art, music, and literature, recognising that creative works may include scientific technologies, methods of study, and ideas. The chapter offers an overall account of the nature and value of creativity and then sought to defend the compatibility of this account with a Platonic metaphysic.
