An Overview on Creative Democracies

Authors: Agustí Cullell J

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000267

Volume 5, Issue 3

Abstract

In this essay I give an overview of the first of a series of four books with the overarching title of Creative Democracies. In it, I focus on the transition from preindustrial authoritarian societies to societies founded on the social embodiment of free creative intelligence that I call creative democracies. In the second book, The Creative Hand, I present the five main creative powers that constitute human intelligence: interest in reality, semiotic communication, subsidiary symbiosis, generalised research and liberation. The Social Flourishing of Creative Intelligence is the title and content of the third book. In book four, Creative Democracies as a New Paradigm of Human Life, I focus attention on the main features of these societies. These reflections might be understood as the fruits of my meditative research into human intelligence. In this kind of research I consider myself to be very much a beginner. Throughout each of the books, I suggest that the development of these democracies is the necessary outcome of the mutation process through which humanity is currently moving. Having started in the European Renaissance, it has now arrived at a tipping point. We are destined for either a healthy collective life within creative democracies – or complete annihilation. As in a symphony, across all four books I attempt many variations on a few central themes, taking the opportunity to expand and deepen into them from a number of different perspectives.

Keywords: Creative Democracies; Human intelligence; Symbiosis

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