| Popis: |
The search for one’s own identity is a necessary condition for the existence of a person and, as a rule, is conducted in the aspect of his national, religious, and social characteristics. The great importance in this process has historical self-determination, which only in the mutual superposition of the coordinates of the beginning and the end of history is possible. The problem is these parameters are traditionally considered autonomously in relation to each other, which a balanced assessment of the state of modern humanity and its future complicates. The aim of this paper is to apply methodological approach that will provide a correlation of historical retrospective and outlook for self-determination of modern man. Since the historical location of modern human is the point between prehuman and post-human, it can be argued that his essence is not quite defined. It is multifaceted, but without soul is impossible, so anthropogenesis is a soul-genesis, which in the physical appearance of man is expressed, in the creation of tools, art, religion, morality, in various forms of symbolic activity. A not fully formed person begins to dehumanize. This is a symptom of the approaching of the “end” of history. Organic and intellectual regression is accompanied by the integration of human with a machine, which assumes not only the functions of the body, but also intellect. The primacy of creation is replaced by the dominance of consumption. In man “symbolic animal” dies, but “virtual animal” awakes. Religious faith degenerates into “secular” faith, language degrades to the level of “digital” phenomenon, beauty transforms into a commercial and entertainment product-simulacrum. There is the occurrence of a new era—post-verbal, post-value, post-human. But historical pluralism points to the asynchronous of the “beginning” and the “end” of history. Ending in one point, it begins in another, thus preserving the hope for the preservation of man. |
