RT Article
T1 The Poet, the Practitioner, and the Beholder: Remarks on Philip Hefner's “Created Co-Creator”
JF Zygon
VO 39
IS 4
SP 747
OP 754
A1 Westhelle, Vitor 1952-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2004
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/182795714X
AB Philip Hefner's notion of the created co-creator is treated here as a concept in its procedural sense. The concept as a theoretical construct offers a substantial account of human capabilities, their ingenuity to transcend the intrinsic and bring about a new order of growth and development. However, the limitation of this concept is its neatness. It suppresses that which cannot be suppressed. This otherwise straightforward concept fails to give a realistic description of the human in situations of being on the edge that points to an end where there are no alternatives or negotiations. What is promising in the created co-creator is that it is able to incorporate elements of the Western philosophical and theological anthropology. I propose that the created co-creator reflects and elaborates the Aristotelian human attributes of theoria, praxis, and poiesis.
K1 Theoria
K1 Praxis
K1 Poiesis
K1 Irony
K1 created co-creator
K1 Analogy
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00616.x