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Abstract:
The article, The Synergetic Model of Global Synthesis of Social, Cultural, Scientific and Technological Progress is focused on discussing a new methodological approach to the study of theoretical prerequisites for synthesis of Global Social, Cultural, and Scientific and Technological progress from the Synergetic Historicism perspective. The approach in question is aimed at rethinking interconnected problems both of human origins in the Universe and humanity's global future. Results of the analysis of two approaches to considering a role of Homo Faber in dynamic synthesis of Social, Cultural, Scientific and Technological Progress allowed to ground two alternative ways to the reproduction of Homo Faber's viability. Thus, globalization, regarded, according to the Synergetic Historicism conception, as a new phenomenon of social, cultural, and scientific life opposed by deglobulisation, is thought of as a way to global human mentality achieved through a potentially local diversity. This concept is evidently exemplified by a bifurcation of global progress, demonstrated by the Synergetic Model of Synthesis, which allows to show a constructive-cum-destructive role of Chaos and Order.
The investigation in question is based on such a progressive methodology as the Law of Self-Organizing Social and Cultural Ideals, as well as the Method of Dual Oppositions. The Law of Self-Organizing Ideals contributes to obtain identity between the absolute ideal common to all humanity and relative individual ideals shared by every member of society, according to the principle of self-similarity of dissipative systems. Synergetic Historicism considers life in biological and sociological aspects to be a synthesis of reversible and irreversible, recurrent and unique, stable and mutable transformations of matter, on the one hand, and a product of reproducing and consuming social and cultural values, on the other. And, in both cases, life is treated as a synthesis of two or more interrelated opposite processes. The infringement of such a synthesis results in negating life and emerging self-destroying systems (that is to say, in Order-to-Chaos transition). The Synergetic approach to the human history is oriented towards rethinking it as the alternation of Ideological Order and Ideological Chaos, whereas social and cultural experiences accumulated by humanity - as the alternation of Social and Cultural Order and Social and Cultural Chaos, according to the Law of Self-Organizing Ideals.
Rethinking Self-Expressing Subjects called "Homo Faber" as a kind of ideological as well as social and political "animals" allows demonstrating that any idealization is inherent in human beings' mental activity only, for the only society is characterized by reproducing ideals and values. Thereby, rethinking interrelationships between the problem of a sense of social history and the meaning-of-life of Homo Faber permits to substantiate specific regularities of self-transforming Homo Faber into Homo Super by the agency of the Ideological Code transmitted from generation to generation on the way of potentially infinite movement of Humanity to the Absolute Ideal.
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