Anthropological Boundaries of Humanitarian Expertise

Abstract

The article examines the phenomenon of humanitarian expertise in the context of the anthropological turn, that was carried out the philosophy of science and practice and taking into account the formation of nonclassical norms in epistemology and the philosophy of science. In general, authors understand the anthropological turn as a shift from the essential paradigm to the event and energy paradigm, within which a person acts not as an object of description and construction, but as an event, due to which, in one way or another, the norm and the boundaries of a person are revised. Humanitarian expertise in this regard is seen as a practice and an institution that re-poses the question of the norm and the boundaries of a person that have been seriously problematized in connection with the introduction of convergent technologies into the practice. In the article four types of boundaries are considered in detail: life and death, natural and artificial man, man and animal life, man and God. When analyzing the border phenomenon, the authors use the concept of a frontier, since the frontier as a floating border concept is already introduced into science.