Problematization of the human: an incompletely completed project

From the standpoint of the author of the article, the project of the human is complete and at the same time incomplete. Completed in the sense that philosophy and religion, in their millennial quest, gave an answer to the universal question about the origin, essence and purpose of human, about the highest spiritual meaning of his being. The answer provides a stable worldview foundation that allows you to overthrow skepticism and relativism, for which there is no criterion for distinguishing between good and evil, and everything that happens is covered with a mist of relativity and uncertainty. A modern form of skepticism is postmodernism, which answers topical issues of digitalization and at the same time separates a person from both the real world and transcendence, plunging him into the space of «simulacra». It is, indeed, an unfinished, extremely open, unstable and unreliable space. But the philosophy of the East and West, in its centuries-old search, found reliable ways to refute skepticism in all its historical forms and determined the firm, unshakable foundations of human existence in the world, his «ultimately signified». Having in its arsenal the result obtained by hard work, philosophy can become a reliable support in the interpretation of the concept of transhumanism, inspired by the success of «emergent technologies». At the same time, the project is incomplete in the sense that human has to overcome the base, animal nature, which encourages vicious desires, thoughts and actions, and to make an ascent to the spiritual, divine Source. This process can be considered unfinished, open, endless. Human physicality will also improve thanks to the success of modern technologies, but under the guidance of spiritual and moral principles - faith, love, conscience. These positions are supported in the article by an appeal to the concepts of Orthodox philosophy (Ivan Ilyin) and Islamic philosophy (Abu Hamid al-Ghazali).