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Ursul, A. D., Ursul, T. A. Future of Humankind: Apocalypse or Evolution?

Abstract: The authors view the question about possible death of humankind that has been often raised and discussed by many other philosophers and scientists. At the same time, the authors discuss Tsiolkovsky’s views on possibility of eternal progress of the society that was born and has been developed on our planet as a result of space exploration. The authors study numerous global and cosmic threats and dangers that may arise before human in the course of his development. The authors also estimate the possibility of the hypothesis of social immortality. They analyze the assumption about the principle possibility to create a higher stage of the material evolution which would be called the post-social (or supra-social) stage.


Keywords:

philosophy, apocalypse, geocosmic safety, death of humankind, global catastrophes, cosmology of spirit, cosmic catastrophes, post-social stage of evolution, social immortality, trans-humanism.


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