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Chernov S.V. Characterology of Genuis: the Image of Genius Personality (the Case Study of Honoré de Balzac's Creative Life)

Abstract: Traditional psychological researches of personality are rather insufficient to undertand personality from the point of view of its integrity and completeness, neither do they allow to create an integral image of genius personality. Within the framework of an original branch of philosophical anthropology developed by the author of the present article and called 'characterology of genius', the author makes another attempt to view the problem of genius in a new light as rather a philosophical and anthropological problem than merely psychological issue. According to the author of the article, without solving this problem it would be impossible to fully understand the essence of human taking into account that the supreme states of spirit including genius throw light on that microcosm which we call 'human'. To prove and substantiate his original approach to studying human genius, the author analyzes creative life of a famous French philosopher and author Honore de Balzac (1799–1850). It was not by accident that the author chose Balzac for his research. Balzac's life presents the most visible phenomena of genius such as the phenomenon of action, peculiarities of a genius mind, values and aspirations of genius, creative genius and mission of a genius. The fact that Balzac also researched the phenomenon of genius in his works is important, too. 


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philosophical anthropology, characteristics of a genious, Honoré de Balzac, creative life of the genius, phenomena of genius, phenomenon of action, values and meanings, peculiarities of a genius mind, creative genius, mission of a genius


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