Rational ideas of new Enlightenment project and the contours of achieving a safe future

  • Pavel A. Vodopiyanov Belarusian State Technological University, 13А Sviardlova Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus
  • Irina N. Sidorenko Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-0102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33581/2521-6821-2020-3-49-54

Abstract

The authors of this article reveal the main risks and dangers of a consumer society that has turned reason into a utilitarian means of violence against nature, which can be overcome on the way to the new Enlightenment based on the implementation of the strategy of sufficient development and the formation of a noospheric worldview. Substantiates the idea that to overcome the ecological difficulties in the relationship between man and nature purely technical means is just one of the necessary conditions for achieving a sustainable future the essence of the new Enlightenment as a prerequisite for the harmonization of relations between society and nature through the implementation of adequate strategy of development and implementation of an optimal environmental policy in overcoming the crisis and combining actions for progressive development and security into a single system.

Author Biographies

Pavel A. Vodopiyanov, Belarusian State Technological University, 13А Sviardlova Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus

corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; professor at the department of philosophy and law, faculty of organic substances technology

Irina N. Sidorenko, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

doctor of science (philosophy), docent; professor at the department of philosophy and methodology of science, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

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Published
2020-09-28
Keywords: nature, consumer society, destruction, violence, reason, new Enlightenment, sufficient development strategy, noospheric worldview, environmental policy
How to Cite
Vodopiyanov, P. A., & Sidorenko, I. N. (2020). Rational ideas of new Enlightenment project and the contours of achieving a safe future. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology, 3, 49-54. https://doi.org/10.33581/2521-6821-2020-3-49-54
Issue
No 3 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology
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Articles and Reports

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