ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that we become human by exercising our freedom in acts of becoming. It introduces a number of themes: enjoyment, creativity, aesthetics, self-realization, critique, celebration, consensus, myth, and play. The theme of humanist theory is that we become human in creative and liberating activity. The contextual requisites of becoming human are freedom to direct life and social contexts of learning and development. Freedom is employed in a directed way toward the realization or fulfillment of one’s human Leisure is part of the human and humanizing process of life that is fundamental to the entire life span. The first object of creation in leisure is the self and this aim is fundamental to the nature of humankind. Leisure is freedom, not from culture and its enrichment but for human and humanizing action. The human being is characterized by an insatiable longing for meaning.
