Moral Creativity with a Little c
摘要
In this article, I argue that there is such a thing as moral creativity with a little c, namely when agents realize innovative moral improvement in a particular context. This claim is meant as an addition to the growing field of philosophy of creativity that mainly discusses artistic and scientific creativity or historically unprecedented cases of moral creativity. With the help of two examples, I show that moral creativity also occurs in a non-historical, small-scale variant that is innovative given the particularity and expectations of a specific context. Unlike other moral-philosophical accounts that focus either on groundbreaking or revolutionary moral achievements or understand moral creativity in terms of moral imagination, this paper emphasizes the significance of everyday, context-sensitive innovations in moral practice. Cases of creativity with a little c illustrate that moral progress does not always require large-scale transformation. Rather, moral improvement can emerge from adaptive and genuinely creative responses to local challenges.