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InThe Courage to Create,1 Rollo May defines creativity, in its “authentic” form, as “the process of bringing something new into being.”2 In the course of his discussion, he considers several kinds of experiences which he claims to be essential moments of the creative process: “encounter,” “courage,” and a “drive toward form,” among others. Beyond this, there is little attempt to explore the presuppositions and the complexities of the concept of “bringing something new into being.”
The following discussion is a version of a paper presented at a session of The Society for the Philosophy of Creativity, Pacific Division, in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association meetings, Berkeley, California, March 26, 1976.
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Rollo May, The Courage to Create ( New York: Norton, 1975 ).
Ibid., p. 39.
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Hausman, C.R. (1981). Criteria of Creativity. In: Dutton, D., Krausz, M. (eds) The Concept of Creativity in Science and Art. Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5083-2_4
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