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Western: -Creativity comes from the Biblical story of creation from Genesis. The idea of God as an artist sprang from this. -Plato felt that art was an effort to match or mimic ideal forms. Originality was not an early attribute, as it is considered today
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-Genuis was associated by mystical powers of the gods
-With Aristotle a social value of creativity rose
-With the Romans creative power belonged to the men and could be passed on to his children. Giving birth was also a form of creativity at the time. -
-Chaucer uses word 'create' but meant little until the Enlightment philosophers could move the word to mean imagination and individual freedom.
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-The invention of research from Netwon, Copernicus, and Galileo changed the way we think about the world. They challeged old beliefs about creativity and threatened the interpretation of scripture and religion.
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Hobbes was the first figure to give credit to the human imagination. He believed human thought and planning were constructive and this idea reappeared during the Enlightenment.
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The separation of 'genius' and 'creativity' liberated and expanded the idea of what creativity could be. New words like originality and talent became assoiciated with creativity. All leading to the 18th c. doctrine of individuality!
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-Only after the process of natural selection was laid out was there basic characteristics of creativity-such with the concept of adaptation and diversity.
