Russian version of the article

DOI: 10.17072/2078-7898/2016-3-22-26

ESSENCE AND PERSPECTIVES OF HUMAN IN THE CONTEXT
OF PROBLEM OF SOCIOBIOLOGICAL CRISIS

Zhelnin Anton Igorevich
Senior Lecturer of the Department of Philosophy

Perm State University,
15, Bukirev str., Perm, 614990, Russia;
e-mail: zhelnin90@yandex.ru

The subject of the article is a modern social and biological crisis. We study its general nature and the mechanisms associated with exacerbation of dialectical contradiction between the social and the «included» biological in human essence. It occurs due to mismatch of their fundamental ways of existence (productive and adaptive, respectively), when the parameters of social and technological progress are such that human with his biological side begins to lose the ability to adequately adapt to them. This desynchronization creates the danger of losing integrity by human essence. The specificity of the present crisis consists in that the mind and the nervous system become the main target of loads. Because of its integrated character, it can then generate a cascade of failures in other systems of the organism. This crisis generated by series of imbalances and the ambivalent nature of whole modern progress refers to the exhaustion of the way of civilization’s development in many ways. Since the main reason for this is the spontaneous and antagonistic character of it, common «deficit of rationality», the main line to overcome the crisis should be the widespread application of forecasting and planning systems to human development, the establishment of optimal loads on his mind and biology.

Keywords: human, socio-biological crisis, techno-humanitarian balance, «deficit of rationality», mind, adaptation, homeostasis, autopoesis, forecasting, planning.

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The date of the manuscript receipt 30.03.2016

Please cite this article in English as:

ZhelninA.I.Essence and perspectives of human in the context of problem of sociobiological crisis // Perm University Herald. Series «Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology». 2016. Iss. 3(27). P. 22–26. doi: 10.17072/2078-7898/2016-3-22-26