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Moral Creativity and Creative Morality

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The Ethics of Creativity

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In the interest of doing my job as quickly and efficiently as possible, I want to introduce myself now so we don’t have to waste valuable time later with idle chit chat. I am Dr Gregory House... I am a board certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology. I am also the only doctor currently employed at this clinic who is forced to be here against his will... but you don’t need to worry because for most of you, this job could be done by a monkey with a bottle of Motrin. Speaking of which, if you’re particularly annoying, you may see me reach for this. This is Vicodin. It’s mine... I do not have a pain management problem. I have a pain problem. But who knows, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m too stoned to tell. David & Singer (2004)

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Li, Q., Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). Moral Creativity and Creative Morality. In: Moran, S., Cropley, D., Kaufman, J.C. (eds) The Ethics of Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137333544_5

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