TRANSHUMANISM AS ONE OF POSSIBLE WAYS OF THE HUMANITY FUTURE DEVELOPMENT: THE HISTORY OF IDEA
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7227-2022-2-108-116
Abstract
Aim. To analyze the history of the inception and transformation of the ideas of transhumanism from the ancient time up to nowadays.
Methodology. To study this issue, general and specific scientific methods were used including deduction and induction, analysis, synthesis, generalization, philosophical and historical analysis, and hermeneutics.
Results. The main stages of the development and establishment of the idea of transhumanism are demonstrated in the research with the philosophical accents on each of them.
Research implications. The results of the study prove that transhumanism is a complex ideological phenomenon with a rich ideological history that cannot be evaluated unequivocally.
About the Author
E. V. Rochnyak
Gorlovka University for Foreign Languages
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena V. Rochnyak – Cand. Sci. (Philosophy), Assoc. Prof., Department of Philosophy and History
Rudakova ul., Gorlovka 284626
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