The future as the problem of spiritual experience of mankind

Authors

  • Cheslaw S. Kirvel Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, 22 Ažeška Street, Hrodna 230023, Belarus
  • Inna V. Busko Grodno State Agrarian University, 28 Cieraškova Street, Hrodna 230008, Belarus

Keywords:

forecasting, futurology, social prediction, method of scenarios for the future, the vision of the future, self-organizing forecast, the subjective factor of history

Abstract

The development of the problem of the future in modern philosophy is investigated. The features of social and existential need of understanding of the future are revealed. Methods of future research are systematized, features of forecasting as the main type of scientific foresight are revealed. The statistical probabilistic character of historical regularity is revealed based on the analysis of specificity of social foresight. The necessity of the analysis of the spiritual state of society, deep ideological orientations and value preferences in the development of social forecasts is substantiated. The role of images of the future in the processes of manifestation of the subjective factor of history is shown.

Author Biographies

  • Cheslaw S. Kirvel, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, 22 Ažeška Street, Hrodna 230023, Belarus

    doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; head of the department of philosophy, faculty of pedagogy

  • Inna V. Busko, Grodno State Agrarian University, 28 Cieraškova Street, Hrodna 230008, Belarus

    PhD (philosophy), docent; associate professor at the department of social science, faculty of accounting

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Published

2019-06-13

Issue

No. 2 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology

Section

Social Philosophy

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How to Cite

[1]
Kirvel, C.S. and Busko, I.V. 2019. The future as the problem of spiritual experience of mankind. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology. 2 (Jun. 2019), 23–31.