- Explanatory matrix of theories about Genius
- Attributive theories of Genius
- Structural-functional theories of Genius
- Procedural-dynamic theories of Genius
- Genetics theories of Genius
- Transnormality theories of Genius

- Explanatory matrix of theories about Genius
- Attributive theories of Genius
- Structural-functional theories of Genius
- Procedural-dynamic theories of Genius
- Genetics theories of Genius
- Transnormality theories of Genius
- Evolutionary theories of Genius
- Essential theories of Genius
- Worldgenetic theories of Genius
- Universe theories of Genius
- Heroic theory of Genius
- Metapotention theory of Genius
- Universality Theory of Genius
- Congregative theory of Genius
- Universe-and-personalistic theory of Genius
- Substantial – imperative theory of Genius
- Transpersonal theory of Genius
- Visionary theory of Genius
- Creative vision theory of Genius
3.1. Genetic (from Lat. Genesis – creation, origin) theories are aimed at studying the origin of genius, the disclosure of the conditions and causes of its occurrence, as well as at identification of the main determinants, laws of its origin, formation and development.
At the same time the main attention of researchers focused on identifying of a single cause underlying the genius, on revealing of the original matrix, qualitative peculiar core that remains identical at the different stages of development.
In doing so, we can talk about some unified genetic concept of genius, which is an integral system of independent explanatory principles and individual theories. In this sense, the genetic approach to the study of genius acquires a special heuristic force, which reveals the underlying laws of genius’s development as a living, self-moving whole.
Thus, the implementation of particular variants and modifications of the genetic approach leads to the creation of separate theories of genius, based on corresponding explanatory principles.
Awaking and becoming a genius is implemented and deployed in the space of mutual-embedded, but autonomous and maintaining its qualitative features, worlds: object, symbolic, social, inner and integrating them cultural world. In this regard, the genetic theories of genius can be grouped and fit in the specified Pentabazis of phenomenological worlds.
Table 4. Genetics theories of Genius
Theory of Impressing
3.1.1. Hereditary theory is based on genetic conditionality and innateness of
genius, on its direct connection with the factors of heredity, as well as on the assumption “that the genius is transmitted by inheritance, being accumulated like some mysterious power, from generation to generation” (V. Pekelis).
These ideas were put forward by such great representatives of humanity as Plato and Goethe, but firstly they were conceptualized by F. Galton in his famous book “Hereditary Genius” (1869) and supported by L. Termen and G. Hollingworth. Modern followers of this theory argue that there is no single gene of genius, but a combination of a number of genes and genetic programs.
Supporters of the hereditary theory in order to prove its irrefutability provide the facts of appearance of an entire galaxy of geniuses of the same family in different generations. Thus, the inheritance of diverse talents in a straight line was observed in the families of such musicians as Bach, Strauss, Mozart, Scarlatti, Bellini, Dussek, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer;
artists as Titian, Van Dyck, Correggio, Veronese, Tintoretto, Raphael;
writers and poets as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Corneille, Racine, Swift, Coleridge, Tasso;
scholars: Aristotle, Bacon, Bernoulli, Galileo, Herschel, Darwin, Leibniz, Euler, Hook, Curie.
At the same time Schiller, Hölderlin, Schelling, Hegel, Planck had consanguinity and one ancestry – Johann Guy. Besides F. Galton and Charles Darwin, H. Heine, and K. Marks were relatives, as well as A. Pushkin, L. Tolstoy, F. Tyutchev, P. Chaadayev, Bestuzhev family, K. Leontyev, A. Tolstoy.
In addition, the relatively early development of abilities and creative achievements of high results in childhood confirm the theory of innate genius Among the outstanding child prodigy were such musicians as Mozart, Haydn, Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Handel, Schubert, artists: Raphael, Giotto, Van Dyck, Michelangelo, Dürer, poets: Lope de Vega, Tasso, Griboyedov, Pushkin, Lermontov, Brodsky, such mathematics as Gauss, Leibniz, Vinogradov, Bogolyubov, and such scientists as Pascal, Ampere, D. Miles, K. Witte, Wiener. Alexander Pushkin finished Ruslan and Lyudmila, when still only twenty years old. Pascal at age 10 has developed the theory of acoustics, and at the age of 15 he wrote a treatise on conic sections. D. Rossini created the opera “The Barber o