Cognitive and Transformative Human Activity in Academician E.M. Babosov’s Philosophical Discourse (Book review: E.M. Babosov. Science and Human Dimensionality of Surrounding Reality. Minsk: Belaruskaya navuka 2021)

The article presents reflections on the book Science and Human Dimensionality of Surrounding Reality written by E.M. Babosov, who is a famous philosopher and sociologist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The book was published to the 90^th anniversary of the author’s birth. The reviewed book reveals the nature, features, and trends of scientific cognition. There demonstrates wide panorama of interconnections between scientific cognition and education, religion, culture, political system, management, national and global security. The book’s author describes the challenges, issues, and prospects of the 21^st century. In his research, E.M. Babosov searches the answer to the question: Will science save humanity? The author’s meditations in the book is the result of his thoughts and concerns of recent decades. The academician acknowledges that scientific cognition, comprehension, and interpretation have eventually become his vocation. According to the book’s author, the progress of science is always a challenge, when the right and the wrong are equal, and new ideas change the usual world-picture. E.M. Babosov provides his vision on relevant modern issues in the light of the government practice of the Republic of Belarus, its diverse manifestation under the global instability condition as well as emphasizes the most relevant problems in the areas of cyber and media spaces, network society formation, largescale digitalization of all human activity spheres. The author analyzes the issues of the development of Belarusian statehood, national identity, national system of government management, personal and public security, political system advance.

1. Babosov E.M. (2021) Science and Human Dimensionality of Surrounding Reality. Minsk: Belaruskaya navuka (in Russian)