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The article considers the global world as an axiological system. The necessity is indicated of taking into account the fact that the functional unity has a limit of optimization, since with all the manifoldness of variants of the exchange and distribution of the products of labor between social groups, their number is always finite and, therefore, the potential of optimization of their combinations can be exhausted. A qualitative transformation of the very set of social groups marks a transition from one type of functioning to another, whereas their sequence is embodied in the process of alternation of the organization epochs, each of which forms the dynamics of their labor division. The problem of formation of a unified axiological system is exacerbated by the inadequacy of the Western model of globalization with respect to the survival needs of modern humanity, its current status can be defined as “civilizational” destruction or a special type of transition state, where relatively new and extremely dangerous processes are closely linked: the ecological, demographic, anthropological, social-political, economic and financial, ethical, religious and other crises. The axiological dimension of globalization is revealed in the fact that one of the stable “pervasive” needs in all known human societies is the need to anticipate and predict the future. It is conditioned by the specificity of the object-practical activities related to the planning and designing as a manifestation of goal-setting. In order for the knowledge of the past to serve as a basis for predicting the future, one needs to have special cognitive structures, that is, a special logical mechanism ensuring correctness of the transfer of information about the past which no longer exists to the future which does not exist yet. The axiological aspect of modern global world is conditioned by the fact that in our historical consciousness the idea of mankind becomes concrete and visible only in real history, in its entirety. There the idea becomes a refuge in those origins, from which there comes to us the true scale, when we find ourselves helpless, lost in the face of a catastrophe, the destruction of all thinking habits that used to defend us. The axiological unity of the global world is determined by the general course of development of all the peoples involved in the movement of history, because there are common trends in the growth and progress, although during certain periods of history the development may slow down.