UDC 141.319.8

FROM HUMAN TO POSTHUMAN
© Levcheniuk, Yevheniia

Kyiv Shevchenko National University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
E-mail: levchenyuk@ukr.net, ORCID 0000-0002-0361-6455
Abstract.
The urgency of the research problem and its significance for theory and practice. The present
time turns to be a qualitatively new stage that differs from the previous ones, namely by huge
deployment of the modern period of the scientific and technological revolution, the consequence of
these processes is posthuman turn. The main content of this turn is that people in their activities go
beyond objective reality.The aim and objectives of the article. The aim of the research is sociophilosophical
analyses of the processes of posthuman formation in the conditions of societies’
techologization and informatization.The aim setting necessitates attaining the following research
objectives: to consider the processes of posthuman formation; to analyse the nature of the scientific
and technological revolution’s deployment and its influence on the formation of the man’s modern
type; to reveal the peculiarities of introducing the scientific and technological achievements in all
spheres of societies’ vital activity as well as its consequences for human development.Materials and
methods. The research materials were represented by different approaches of both national and
Western researchers regarding a new stage of the scientific and technological revolution, which, in
fact, creates conditions for the posthuman’s emergence and development. A wide range of
philosophical and general scientific methods of research was used in the work including metaphysical,
dialectical and phenomenological methods as well as generalization, comparative analysis, system
analysis and others. The research results. It is an undeniable fact that the modern man can not
imagine their life without technology and gadgets. And this creates one of the main requests and tasks
for humanity – that is to create a balance of the interaction between the man and technology, to find
out the ways for people to conquer the consequences of the technical development. In our opinion, it is
worth starting with the organization of our own behavior, which if necessary has to include
interconnection with the nature, with other people, and so on. Conclusion. The consequences of such
artificially created disparity will be unprecedented because earlier, despite all the differences, people
were united by one important factor – they belonged to the same species of Homo Sapiens. Now then
the mankind will be divided into two species. The posthuman’s emerging can destroy the whole system
of liberal democracy currently existing in the west countries which basis, for example, is formed by
natural rights concept implying that people are born equal in rights and are endowed with rights by
birth. But this idea will lose its meaning as soon as the first posthuman appears. It is natural to ask the
question whether people will share the general human nature if being divided into some species.
During the earlier historical stages of development, the man just managed to overcome the disparity
which had prevailed for almost the entire previous history. Nowadays the man risks ending up in a
more unfair world than ever before. These dangers are caused by accelerated development of
biotechnologies and their introducing into all spheres of human activity. Therefore, the consequences
of the cultural and anthropological crisis the modern mankind is experiencing now are threatening
and even disastrous for the existence and development of the individual. Indeed, the emergence of the
posthuman is not a long-term prospect. We are witnessing the onset of posthuman. Technology
gradually and steadily is replacing human. The mankind has to find a balance of human-technology
interaction to survive as a species as well as to encourage and develop their human features. Since the
man’s transformation into the posthuman would rather describe the death of human (in the traditional
sense, an emotionally and spiritually-defined, natural and social creature). It would also imply
dehumanization and replacement of value orientations and models on technologies rather than human
improving.
Keywords: human, posthuman, technologies, postmankind.

FROM HUMAN TO POSTHUMAN