ABSTRACT
The pragmatist model of human creativity refers to the self of the individual. As is generally known, in his model of social identity, George Herbert Mead proceeds from different instances: the internal representation of the behaviour of the other confronts the spontaneous impulses and the driving force of humans. It is important to emphasize that George Herbert Mead and John Dewey campaigned for a democratic renewal of American society and designed their social theory with a normative and democratically political intention. Individual as collective growth should be made possible through democratic cooperation processes. Dewey conceives democratic values as something that does not have to be enforced against 'human nature', but that corresponds to the cooperative tendencies of humans. Hence in political philosophy, the attempt was repeatedly made to not only justify epistemically the principle of cooperation in the field of science, but also cooperation within the framework of democracy.
