Creativity as the Most Important Component of Personality Development and Self-Realization

Abstract

The main feature of creativity is the creation of new values of material and spiritual culture. Modern scientists, when exploring creativity, use two basic approaches, one of which views creativity as an activity that creates a new product that has social value, and the second approach defines creativity as a means of self-realization of man. The self-development of man has caused the attention of the philosophers of the ancient world. The development of both physical and spiritual, intellectual abilities of man were interested in ancient philosophers, such as Democritus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, who believed that self-development was the main purpose of human life.Creativity in antiquity is considered in the aspect of the divine, as the creation of cosmos and human-craft, art, where creativity is embodied in subject-practical activity. Thomas Aquinas, Aurelius Augustine, Erasmus Rotterdam, J. Bruno, B. Spinoza linked self-development with the need to improve human spiritual forces. The Renaissance embodies the idea that man is a master and sculptor himself, and knowledge is an act of individual creativity. For representatives of German classical philosophy G. Hegel, I. Kant, F. Schelling Self-Development is a freedom of choice. In N. Berdyaev, creativity is a higher manifestation of the spiritual essence of man. G. Skovoroda, because of the principle of “affinity”, considers the conditions for the development of human creative abilities. Undoubtedly, the center of creativity is the personality itself, without which creative activity is impossible. Personality has knowledge and skills, abilities, motivation through which it has the opportunity to create a new, unique product. And in order to reveal and expand creative opportunities, personality, it is necessary to have a developed imagination, intuition, creative perception, creative thinking and motivation for the activity in which it can self-actualize itself. Self-development, self-realization of personality, integrity of the components of its individuality is a consequence and condition of creative activity, and the development of socially significant values contributes to improving the level of social maturity of the individual. Therefore, we can talk about the interdependence of creative activity and self-realization of personality in society.