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"Philosophy of Education"

2014 year, number 2

The problem of the «overlord» for humanity in a «past-present-future» context

V. N. Chudomekh
The Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University, Lane Training 8, Simferopol, 95015, Krym
Keywords: ideas, future, Humanity, the vector of development, ontological orientation of people, self-identification of people

Abstract

The objects of research in the article are: 1) the ability of Humanity to objectively select a path into the Future; 2) the existing foundations, which allow Humanity to make an objective decision about the further path into the future; 3) the ability of Humanity to self-organization for following into the future in the «objectively correct» direction. The purpose of article is to disclose the panorama of the proposed ideas of the possible Humanity’s paths into the future, and the acuity of the necessity of the balanced approach toward them. In the article there are analyzed the proposed ideas of Humanity's paths into the future, and there are revealed the factors that predetermine the necessity of the balanced approach to the proposed ideas of Humanity's paths into the future. There are identified three options for the future path of humanity: 1) the humanistic one, which is often called «noospheric» and which leads to the formation of the future integral whole, highly spiritual and responsible for the cosmos humanity; 2) the manipulative one, involving the transfer of the control for the future destiny of mankind to «privileged countries»; 3) the path of a radical change of people’s corporality by its «cyborgization» and «transgenization», which essentially means the deprivation of the possible future people of the possessing of natural body and the ned of being, the «crown» of two billion years evolution of the Living Earth. The analysis revealed the specificity of ontological orientation of people when choosing a path into the future and the existing foundations for choosing an «objectively correct» path of humanity into the future. As the «attractors» and the «lord-guides» of the planetary life of people, the author derived «and justified the «foundations» of self-organization and the «traditions» of the societies, the «self-identification settings» of people, the ideas of social development of «passionate» character and the ideas of «great goals» of human existence. As a general basis for choosing the «objectively correct» path of Humanity into the future, the author proposed the vector of axial development of «prehistory» and «history» of the people of the Earth, which indicates the potential ability of Humanity to implement a cosmogonic mission: the giver of reason and spirituality to the Universe and its co-creators. According to the author, the knowledge of people about this «great potency» and about the «potentially great place» of Humanity in the Universe can become the «overlord», which will guide the people of the Earth along the «objectively correct» path into the future. The scientific and practical significance of the article is in revealing the «problems of overlord» for Humanity and in presenting an original approach to the explanation of its key aspects and possible way of its solution.