DOI: 10.17072/2078-7898/2017-4-507-519

PHILOSOPHICAL-ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROJECT
OF G.P.SHCHEDROVITSKY: HISTORICAL
AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

Ustinov Oleg Alexandrovich
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department
of History and Philosophy of Education and Science

Academy of Advanced Training and Professional
Retraining of Education Specialists,
8/2а, Golovinskoe hwy., Moscow, 125212, Russia;
e-mail: olustinov@rambler.ru
ORCID: 0000-0002-2994-2339

G.P. Shchedrovitsky is a Soviet philosopher, leader of the Moscow Methodological Circle and the creator of the «system-thought-based methodology» (SMD methodology), a vivid representative of the historical and philosophical process of the second half of the XXth century. It is generally accepted that G.P. Shchedrovitsky specialized exclusively in the problems of logic and the theory of knowledge. In this article, the hypothesis on the predominantly anthropological orientation of the SMD methodology is substantiated, and G.P. Shchedrovitsky is regarded as the author of an original philosophical-anthropological project — the project of creating a new type of person — a practically active subject of history, «Homo Creatus» («creative person»). The author notes that the philosophical and anthropological project of G.P. Shchedrovitsky was developed in line with the Marxist tradition in philosophy, but some of his provisions are consonant with the concepts of the future man in the works of Anglo-American philosophers and futurists J. Bell, E. Toffler, F. Fukuyama and others. The purpose of G.P. Shchedrovitsky’s research was the analysis of the structures of thinking, which would allow one to identify and formulate basic methods of studying and transforming the natural and social reality. In the context of analyzing of the philosophical-anthropological project of G.P. Shchedrovitsky, the article deals with the problems of the subjective factor in history, the correlation of biological and social parts in man, the relationship between the individual and the state. The emphasis is put on the relevance of using of certain provisions of the SMD methodology in the process of developing strategies for modernizing the contemporary Russian society.

Keywords: Moscow Methodological Circle, SMD-methodology, G.P. Shchedrovitsky, philosophical-anthropological project, human problem, subjective factor in history, whole man, individuality, personality, socialization, competence approach in education.

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Ustinov O.A. Philosophical-anthropological project of G.P. Shchedrovitsky: historical and philosophical analysis // Perm University Herald. Series «Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology». 2017. Iss. 4. P. 507–519. DOI: 10.17072/2078-7898/2017-4-507-519

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