Аnthropological crisis

searching for overcoming strategy

Abstract

The article deals with the anthropological crisis problem in the conditions of contemporary world essential transformations. Contemporary thought significantly influenced by the informational technologies and genetic engineering researches results strives more and more to reconsider the previous positions in comprehension of human and to form his new image – harmonious and even more intelligent than it was in enlightenment epoch. At the fall of 20^th century post-structuralism and post-modernism have completely destroyed the classical human-subject model and changed the focus from metaphysical dimension of life to the practical, bodily, down to earth. Such point of view became a natural consequence of western culture development where the diverse ways of a new space-time perception are realised with new technologies and mass communications net. However to create full-fledged and practically useful human model there is necessary to analyse possible perspectives of its applying, particularly in education and upbringing and this requires changes in general worldview and philosophical basis.

There were considered two possible strategies of crisis overcoming – constructivism approach and transhumanism ideas. Constructivism negates the priory definite substantive human nature, his fundamental guidance and motivations. In contrast constructivism considers human to be psychological process and proposes the description of those ways humans follow constructing their lives. So human’s behaviour is not governed but chosen, and he has no already given authorities. According to transhumanism today human is changed by “post-human” capable to manage his psych, intellectual and strong-willed characteristics. In transhumanism there is also emerged extropy direction involving gradual technogenic development and human evolving on the basis of the principles formulated by max more. In those principles application more sees the philosophy of future human though all of them presuppose human to be the reason possessor capable to change himself and the world with the help of education and science. Embodiment of extropy ideas requires the significant transformation of all the educational and upbringing system and even more – the change of humankind life basis. Both approaches assert the refusal of transcendental dimension though it sharpens the question about each person contribution into the new human model formation process that could cause certain complications in implementation of both projects.