MAN-CAUSED SITUATIONS AS A PHENOMENON AND CATEGORY: SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

That present-day man-caused crises, accidents
and catastrophes are difficult to forecast makes the problem
of man-caused situations significant. The article has succeeded
in putting in order the content of such closely connected
notions as technological reality (the aggregate of technological
achievements), technology (technological reality in
statistics) and man-caused situations (technological reality
in action). The problem of man-caused situations is considered
in two aspects: phenomenological and categorical. Phenomenological
consideration has allowed us to determine a
relatively independent status of man-caused situations as a
social and technical phenomenon as well as their immanent
contradiction, multiple manifestations and complicated structure
of functioning. Categorical consideration has made it
possible to define, sort out man-caused situations and elaborate
the technique of identifying their index of safety.