Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Psychology - Personality
Psychology, grade: 2.0, University of Malta (Edward de Bono Institute),
course: Creativity: Psychological Perspectives, language: English,
abstract: This paper explores the personality of Richard David Precht.
It shows his work and private life as well as his upbringing. This work
then further explores the influence of his background on his creativity
from the view of experts and then explains Precht's views on the given
topics. The topics focussed are the nature vs. nurture debate, the
influence of intelligence towards creativity and the creative process
and its motivation. Despite a certain general knowledge or common sense
about what creativity is, the issue of an exhaustive scientific
definition for the term 'creativity' is under broad discussion among
scholars. It is argued here that the investigation of the psychological
underpinnings of a creative individual taking the profession of a
philosopher might be of some value to understand or at least give a
brief idea what beliefs and predispositions could enable persons to
engage and influence public discussions and bring new and valuable ideas
to the society for the better of its majority. The individual selected
for this case study is the German philosopher, author, speaker and
public intellectual Richard David Precht who, in his position, could
serve as one example of extraordinary display of the causes and effects
of applied creativity.
