Worldview Aspect of the Evolutionary-Projective Philosophy of Russian Cosmism

The article examines two worldview strategies of the evolutionary-projective philosophy of Russian Cosmism: the strategy associated with elimination of human corporeality, which has found adherents in current transhumanism, and the strategy proposed by humanistic worldview paradigm that directs humanity to the implementation of a deontological noospheric project of coevolution of planetary nature and society as a necessary condition for progress of our socio-natural universe. The focus is on analysis of the worldview insights of Russian Cosmists. In particular, the article addresses Vladimir Vernadsky’s worldview concepts regarding the changing role of man in nature and society. This is caused by changes in material resources, methods and degree of man’s transformation of the world as a result of the use of the microworld’s objects and processes as tools of labor (which are now called nanotechnologies). Among V.I. Vernadsky’s major insights that have been successfully verified in social practice, the article considers such worldview conceptions as orientation toward peaceful use of nuclear energy and the inevitability of replacing organic energy sources with inorganic ones; the need to maintain invariability of the biogenic constants of the planetary ecosystem (biosphere); human autotrophy – providing mankind with abiogenic food and other technogenic resources instead of substances and resources of biogenic origin; formation of a specific hu man person as a factor in the evolution of a planetary socio-natural whole. Taken together, all of these are due to the change in the place and role of modern man in nature and society, and these are also reflected in the formation of an ideological paradigm that is adequate to new trends in the practical evolution of the planetary socio-natural whole.

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