THE HISTORY OF CREATIVITY COMPREHENSION IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY

The purpose of the article is to analyze the views of the representatives of the European thought, from the antiquity to the present on the problems of creativity in order to identify the main trends in revealing the essence of this phenomenon in different historical periods on the grounds of socio-cultural changes. The research methodology includes axiological and comparative approaches to the analysis of the phenomenon of creativity and the features of creative process. The analysis shows that initially (from the mythological period to the Renaissance) in the process of identifying the essence of creativity in European philosophy there was a tendency to a sacralized understanding of creativity through a dialogue of the sacred with the scientific in approaching its essence. The practical and theoretical significance of the article lies in the conclusion that during the sacralization period attention was paid only to the spiritual component of creativity which, starting from the Renaissance, was substituted by rationalist and scientific-materialistic views focussing on the search for objective foundations of the creative process itself or its irrational components.

creativity, creative process, nature of man, the subject of creativity, individual’s creative activity, self-realization, creative opportunities, creative nature of man, man’s inner world

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