Transhumanist Ideas in the Light of the Eco-philosophical Paradigm
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5148-2024-4-123-130
Abstract
Aim. To consider the ideas of transhumanism not as a movement declaring the possibility and necessity of fundamental changes in human nature based on scientific achievements, but as ideas for human improvement within the framework of an eco-philosophical, life-preserving and life-creative approach.
Methodology. To study this issue, general and specific scientific methods are used including deduction and induction, analysis, synthesis, generalization, philosophical and historical analysis, and hermeneutics.
Results. The analysis allows us to emphasize the idea that technologies and scientific achievements have an exclusively instrumental function. However, achieving the desired future of humanity is possible only through changing the axiological guidelines of the rational-technological paradigm of modern society to the values and regulations of the new eco-philosophical paradigm.
Research implications. The results of the study prove that transhumanism is a complex worldview phenomenon with a rich ideological component that does not tolerate unambiguous assessments.
About the Author
E. V. Rochnyak
Donetsk State Pedagogical University named after V. Shatalov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena V. Rochnyak – Cand. Sci. (Philosophy), Assoc. Prof., Assoc. Prof., Department of Philosophy and History
ul. Rudakova 25, Gorlovka 284626, Donetsk People’s Republic
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