人間의 創意性 : 創造的 哲學을 위한 小考 A NOTE FOR CREATIVE PHILOSOPHY = ON HUMAN CREATIVITY

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This is the first part of a general study on human creativity, whick begins with the question: What and how do we create? This question, then, is dirt·iced into "what we create" and "how we create," and only the first of these problems is taken up in this paper, and even so with the emphasis on the creativity in philosophy proper.
Three basic types of man's creative activities are introduced as comprising: (1) creativity in technology and management that purports to effect productivity, (2) creativity in science that seeks truth, and (3) creativity in arts of which the objective is to create beauty. Then the question, "Can philosophy, too, be creative?" is raised in view of these other creative activities of man. And an attempt is made to answer this in affirmative, and maintain that philosophy, too, must be creative, not only in critical sense, but also in constructive way. Philosophy must answer to human needs for spiritual maturity, and to his needs to overcome spiritual sufferings. If so, what can philosophy create in order to meet such damands?
What we ask for from philosophy is not worldly knowledge, nor scientific truth. We can go to science to ask for them. What we want from philosophy is philosophical view-points on things that are significant in our life. We want philosophy to supply with view-points, opinions, or visions that could gibe meaning to things of life. We want to hear Words of philosophy that can heal our spiritual ills and lift us up from our spiritual defeats. So philosophy must create Words just like religion receives them through revelation.
Philosophical creativity, or creative philosophy, then, must be mindful of man's spiritual well-being over against his already too deeply involved care for productivity-oriented institutions and practices. Also it must be seriously concerned with the scientific progress in so far as science remains to be one of the most influential factors in our life, because philosophy must offer the vralue criteria for the good or bad use of the scientific polder, However, when philosophy is thus understood, its closest kin is found in the creative arts. Arts, as well as philosophy, creates for the sake of the spi-ritual well-being of man, although in different forms and media. But when it comes to poetry, which takes words as its media, the similarity between philosophical and artistic creativities becomes even more significant, for poetry that expresses not only aesthetic quality, but also philosophical message or meaning must be considered as both a true artistic creation and a true philosophical creation. Philosophy need not be poetry. But if philosophical creation is to have aesthetic quality as well, it can and must take the form of poetry.
Modern scientific philosophy had dispelled metaphysics from "genuine philosophy" because it was like poetry. But what we have finally come to in our attempt to see philosophy as a creative endeavour is to re-introduce metaphysics into the family of philosophy again, hut not as the seeker of the eternal truth, but as the creator of meaning in Words that sustains and nourishes man's spiritual life.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 인간은 무엇을 어떻게 創作하는가?
• 2. 哲學도 創意的일 수 있는가?
• 3. 哲學은 무엇을 창작할 수 있는가?
• 4. 哲學的 創作은 다른 종류의 創作과 어떻게 다른가?
• 5. 形而上學도 哲學인가?