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Философия на защите человека. Идея человечности в новом гуманизме
Philosophy in Defence of Human Being. The Idea of Humanity in Modern Humanism

Author(s): Iryna V. Stepanenko
Subject(s): Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofów Krajów Słowiańskich
Keywords: the idea of humanity; reconceptualization; posthuman future; new humanism; the philosophical discourse

Summary/Abstract: The author takes up the question of the place of the idea of humanity in the crisis of modern humanism. This issue is contemplated in the context of defending by the philosophy of the idea of humanity against the threats posed by modernism as a „posthuman” culture. The condition of defence is the understanding and interpretation of contemporary social and cultural discourse and the overcoming the false philosophical-anthropological proposals of modernist humanism. The new humanistic program, referring to the „intuition of limits”, would be define the horizon of „universal meanings”. The idea of the humanity should turn from the metaphysical into a permanent reflective and fundamentally discursive.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 111-128
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Russian