Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: The Understanding of Creativity and its Criterions in Classical and Non-Classical Philosophy

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Understanding of Creativity and its Criterions in Classical and Non-Classical Philosophy

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (7)
Authors: Tomyuk, Olga N.
Contact information: Tomyuk, Olga N.:Ural Federal University named after the B. N. Yeltsin 51 Lenin, Ekaterinburg, 620083, Russia; E-mail:
Keywords: creativity; nature of creativity; subjects of creativity; criterions of creativity in classical philosophy; criterions of creativity in non-classical philosophy; the new; novelty; processuality of creativity, creative tendency
Abstract: This article gives comparative analysis of approaches to understanding the creativity and its criterions in classical and non-classical philosophy. As a result of the analysis we found that rational foundations of creativity have formed classical conception of creativity, where the creativity is treated from the position of general categories and where the theory of creative being is a theory about being of the search for general, necessary and regular. Changes in the understanding of creativity phenomenon in non-classical conception are, first of all, connected with the understanding of reality in its processuality, movement and formation. Consequently, non-classical conceptions treat creativity in opposition to mechanical rationalism, where mind is replaced by will, intuition, instincts and etc. In classical tradition creativity is defined as activity, which has a feature of effective novelty. That is why novelty comes out as the main and universal criterion of creativity in classical philosophy. Non-classical philosophical conceptions take novelty as criterial characteristic of creativity in its processuality, but not as a result of activity; processuality of creativity exposes itself with the help of such concepts as duration, intersubjectivity, polyphony, diversity, interparadigmality etc. Besides, in non-classical tradition the process of creation and its results are supplemented by anthropological and social dimensions. Field of results application – philosophy, section – ontology, philosophy of creativity
Pages: 1128-1136
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/13216

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