PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC CIVILIZATION

Abstract

The article is concerned with studying the influence of advanced technologies on the development of human civilization. The methodology of the article includes a comparative analysis of phase transitions from agrarian to NBICS (nano-bio-info-cogno-socio) revolution, socio-philosophical analysis of post-industrial economic and cultural type of civilization. The research has provided insights that the transition of humanity from the early to the latest Neolithic Age, which launched the material pre-requisites of culture progress, marked first and foremost the changed attitude of human to nature. The novelty of this attitude was in cultivation of nature-used forms of economics (cattle-breeding, agriculture, crafts as tools for providing “consumer” life cycle of humanity) and the corresponding forms of thinking. The potential transition of humanity from modernity, which maximizes the principles of the Neolithic revolution, to the phase of civilization replacing it, is fundamentally different from the previous one. The theoretical and practical value of the article is in identifying the direction of the future revolution the pathos of which is in the approval of new forms of human practice and ideology. The latter are developing on the basis of a) the formation of new subject-object relationships characterized by the destruction of the “consumer” and the assertion of productive and creative attitude of man to nature; b) adoption of norms, ideals, values characterized by specific criteria of eco-interaction and eco-communication.