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Full Idea
Security and liberty are only the negative conditions for good political institutions. When they have been won, we need also the positive condition: encouragement of creative energy.
Gist of Idea
We need security and liberty, and then encouragement of creativity
Source
Bertrand Russell (Political Ideals [1917], 1)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Political Ideals' [Spokesman 2007], p.18
A Reaction
This sounds like some sort of liberal socialism. The nearest connection I can see is to the 'capabilities approach' of Martha Nussbaum. How do you intervene to encourage creativity?