Creativity as a National Element: The Problem of Good and Evil (Review of the International Scientific Conference)

The X International Scientific Conference “Creativity as a National Element: the Problem of Good and Evil” was held at the Department of Social Sciences of the Humanities Faculty of the Saint Petersburg State University of Econo­mics from June 27 to July 1, 2024 and brought together participants from thir­teen countries and thirteen university centers in Russia. The speakers focused on the burning eternal problem: to what extent does a person, as a social subject, know what they create. The structure of the 10th conference consisted of 6 panel discussions covering 4 topics: Dialogue of Cultures in the Crea­tive Process; Axiology of the Creative Process; The Phenomenon of Creativity in Philosophical Reflection: Classics and Modernity; Aesthetic and Ethical As­pects of the Creative Process. The conference was timed to coincide with the anniversaries of the births of I. Kant, A.S. Pushkin, N.A. Berdyaev and M. Heidegger, and thus reflected on the connections between the modern histo­rical situation and the creative eras of European intellectual history.