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What is Dialectic Materialism

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Sustaining Creativity and the Arts in the Digital Age
A philosophical approach to reality sustained by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. For them, the material world has an autonomous existence, independent of mind or spirit. Despite adopting Hegel’s dialectic model based on thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, their materialism is opposite to idealism.
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Creativity: An Overview
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 37
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7840-7.ch001
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to provide a general premise to the contents of the following chapters. It introduces the notion of creativity, highlighting the main historical turning points and briefly presenting the three distinct domains in which creativity is deemed to occur, namely 1) philosophy, which focuses on the theoretical essence of creativity as well as its aesthetic and ethical dimensions; 2) art, which focuses on the creation of objects intended to be beautiful; and 3) science, which focuses on creating innovative artifacts, including models purposed for a specified problem domain.
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