%0 Journal Article
%T Creative Imagination – the Source of Theorizing in Political Science
%A Pierzchalski, Filip
%J Teoria Polityki
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/00000000TP.17.002.6581
%N No. 1/2017
%P 25-43
%K creative imagination, illumination, creative theorizing, directness/indirectness of scientific cognition, divergent thinking
%@ 2543-7046
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/teoria-polityki/article/wyobraznia-tworcza-o-zrodlach-teoretyzowania-w-nauce-o-polityce
%X 
	The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon of creative imagination as source the creation theory and scientific theorizing in political science. In this understanding, the author made three-views of key topics methodological reflection, which are synonymous the mechanism of the scientific theorizing in political science. The three-views proceed as follows: human imagination → indirectness of scientific cognition → creative theorizing.