Open AccessTECHNOCENTRISM AS A PROBLEM OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: CONFLICT BETWEEN HUMANISM AND TECHNOLOGY
Author(s) -
Natalia Fradkina,
Maryna Mishchenko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ukraïnoznavčij alʹmanah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2520-2626
DOI - 10.17721/2520-2626/2019.24.26
Subject(s) - humanism , humanity , environmental ethics , politics , subject (documents) , sociology , bioethics , action (physics) , social science , political science , epistemology , engineering ethics , law , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , computer science , engineering
In contemporary Ukraine conflict studies are primarily deal with historical, political, and cultural sciences. The proposed research outlines the features of a global conflict, to which all countries will be involved in the future. It is a conflict of humanism, which for centuries was the basis of world culture, philosophy, and ethics on the one hand, and technology on the other. The main problem is the probable loss of human identity through cybernation. The article analyzes the fundamental works of philosophers and futurologists, and also outlines ways to resolve the conflict with help of new ethics that should be evaluated by humanity. The special role of Ukrainian and cultural studies in higher-level academic education is emphasized. Within the framework of these scientific disciplines, a new ethics should be developed. Philosophical, psychological and futurological theories of the 20th and 21st centuries analyze the present, and foresee the future. Researchers seek to figure out a new global challenge for humanity that provokes to rethink its course of action. Contemporary world is filled with robots and technologies. The position of human in this world has changed and it requires new features of humanism. Spiritual searches of past eras opposed man and nature. But today man is opposed to technology. It means that the future of man is becoming unclear. New spiritual, economic, political and environmental confrontations waiting for man on his way. This subject is many-sided and interdisciplinary, it demands knowledge in humanities, philosophy, futurology, bioethics and technical disciplines.