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What is there more mysterious, more unfathomable than man’s creative activity? Must we simply avoid the philosophical question it poses by attributing a supernatural character to it, by analogy with divine creation? In the effort to adopt a rational approach, must we emphasize the creator’s personality (which raises the problem, difficult to unravel, of the complexity of the psyche), or must we insist on the primacy of inspiration (which raises the problem of transcendence)? Finally, doesn’t the historical, economic, and social situation of the epoch suffice to explain the creative act?
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© 1988 Kluwar Academic Publishers, Dordr39echt, The Netherlands
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Tymieniecka, AT. (1988). The Outlines of an Inquiry. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Logos and Life: Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason. Analecta Husserliana, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3915-8_4
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