Blog 1 - Virtue

Creativity

The virtue creativity can be define as the habit of producing new ideas and expressing them in art and problem solving, to diverge from a standard or old idea. If everyone should develop this, it would make entertainment more enjoyable and would produce new forms of entertainment faster. The process of innovation would become much faster with more creative people. Creativity is a virtue, meaning it shows a high moral standard but, this virtue is also the ability to generate new useful ideas and alternatives. This is different than the virtues talked about in class. Piety is the devotion to an idea, where creativity is the tendency to develop different ideas.

Creativity is a virtue because it’s what distinguishes a leader from a group. Being able to see from a different perspective can help generate new ideas that aim to solve an existing problem or evolve a previous idea or to make it better. When a creative person expresses their new idea to others, and they also see it improving, they will follow the creative person; until the idea doesn’t do what the creative person says it would.

1. All new ideas that aim to improve a society are virtuous.
2. All creative acts are new ideas that aim to improve a society.
3. Therefore, all creative acts are virtuous.

In conclusion, one who shows creativity is virtuous because they become a leader and because they aim to improve a society using new ideas. Creativity may be in everyone but not everyone is creative because not everyone likes to be different or try different things.