DOI: 10.32691/2410-0935-2020-15-229-243
Pavel D. Tishchenko
About author:
Doctor of Science (Philosophy), Chief Researcher, Institute of Philosophy of RAS
E-mail: pavel.tishchenko [at] yandex.ru (pavel[dot]tishchenko[at]yandex[dot]ru)
Abstract. The idea of human design rests in the heart of European humanist project. The existential meaning of the idea of human design is analyzed. A piece of the work by J. Pico della Mirandola is interpreted as a prophecy expressing the fate of the New European era (by M. Heidegger). Several aspects could be distinguished in this prophecy: the throwing of man into the world without his place, form and purpose, the right and demand to define both place and form and raison d 'être by reason. Historically, special experiments of solving the fundamental mystery are considered - what it means to be human from Descartes to modern transhumanistic projects of human self-construction? The meaning of the New Time era is defined through J. Pico 's proposed existential task. It is emphasized that at every historically special stage of subjugation of the nature of man, the dream of almighty condensed in the strange topos of about-being. Faced with the impossibility of defeating death, and without abandoning new projects of its subjugation, the modern era generates existential substitution. Suffering is put on the scene of death as the main representative of evil. The result is euthanasia technologies that view death not just as a lesser evil compared to suffering (pain), but as the most radical mean of achieving the new goal - radical pain relief. A thought experiment is being conducted to demonstrate the possibility of self-destruction of mankind motivated by the desire to solve the difficult problems of mankind in the way of its euthanasia.
Key words: human design, humanism, existence, meaning, death, immortality, about-being, pain relief, euthanasia, pain, self-destruction of humanity.
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