The Creative Nature of Human Life in the Light of the Ideas of the Russian Philosophers

Abstract

The article analyzes the understanding of the nature of creativity in the works of Russian religious philosophers. The fundamental importance of this topic for philosophical anthropology is derived from the obvious to the religious thinker circumstance, that “the image and likeness of the Creator cannot be a Creator”. In the works of Russian philosophers represented to some extent differing approaches to understanding creativity, which, however, have some common fundamental traits, stemming from their common worldviews. So, for Berdyaev, the purpose of the creative impulse is the achievement of another life, another world, i. e., the output in the sphere of transcendental. For Solovyov in accordance with his philosophy of unity is also a desire for a different, authen tic life, the meaning of which is love, meaning that one person finds in the other completeness of his own life. In the philosophy of G. V. Florovsky goal of creativity - the creation of the man himself as an expression of the desire for Union with God. The approaches complement each other, creating a volumetric image of the phenomenon of creativity. Despite the differences in points of view on the question of the scope of a creative being, all Russian philosophers agree that creativity, being the absolute beginning of human existence, by its nature irrational and that the creative subject is a specific subject as a free person. The article presents the idea that for Russian philosophers the problem of creativity has primarily a metaphysical sense, the point of which his understanding as the beginning, constitute the fundamental basis of human existence.

Keywords

• creativity
• personality
• freedom
• necessity
• theurgy