FREEDOM AND ARTISTIC CREATIVITY IN KANT FREEDOM AND ARTISTIC CREATIVITY IN KANT By

i i The notion of artistic creativity has become so commonplace in our thought that the only question remaining, it seems, is whether anyone (or everyone) other than the artist is capable of being creative. Even noting that this notion, used in the sense that we tend so readily to accept, is no more than two hundred years old, is unlikely to prevent the raising of at least one eyebrow at the suggestion that the idea is not as unproblematic as it might at first appear. The purpose of this thesis is to revitalize the belief in human creativity by returning to its primary philosophical source: Immanuel Kant. By doing this, I hope to revive at least the possibility of serious philosophical debate on an issue that is now eithe