What is activity, and what kind of activity is it?

It is impossible to understand what an activity is, not taking into account all its possible aspects and manifestations. Often this term is understood as a sequence of actions of a subject united by the goal of creating a product, material or cultural. Is this definition correct?

Man can not only bring something new into the world. Often there is a need to eliminate, eliminate for some reason unclaimed or obstructing items.

Getting rid of depression and recognizing a transaction is insignificant - these processes require completely different actions, but in both cases we are talking about activity aimed at stopping the existence of phenomena (bad mood, contract rights). The above examples of targeted actions, however, can not fall under the category of destructive activity. After treatment for depression - healing the body, eliminating violations, and recognizing the nullity of the transaction - the restoration of the legal rights of the parties, the removal of the consequences of the error, which was not immediately revealed. Thus, creative activity is not necessarily connected with the creation of new objects, it can recognize the status of something that exists.

In order to understand what an activity is, it is necessary to learn to distinguish constructive actions that do not bring the new into the world, from destructive ones. The latter are united by the goal of destroying an object of material or spiritual culture. A vivid example can serve some types of criminal activity. For example, acts of vandalism as the destruction or desecration of historical monuments of cultural value for society are destructive in nature.

On the other hand, for a criminal, damage to historical values may not be an end in itself. Often the behavior of the offender is a way to convey the idea to the world, to defend a certain position.

For example, sawing crosses of churches can be an attempt to communicate the attitude of the deviant to the politics of the church or the state, the desire to live in a society not burdened with certain aspects of the work of these organizations.

This may be followed by a new vision of the life of society, the concept of interaction between society, the individual and the state. You can consider human beliefs, thinking and activities as an attempt to demonstrate their views. And some destructive actions can be a means of expressing constructive ideas.

To determine what an activity is means to understand the specifics of not only destructive, but creative activity. Constructive actions can bring to the world fundamentally new, different from others, things and ideas.

This kind of activity is called creativity. Production activity, on the contrary, is a sequence of actions to transform resources into material goods in demand for society. This is a flow-based creation of objects according to an already existing concept.

So, what is activity in the broadest sense? These are the actions of the subject aimed at transforming, changing the world and man.