Paradoxes of Modern Humanism

Abstract

Perhaps no social topic contains as many contradictions as humanism. And every time, in one era or another, the paradoxical nature of the problem of humanity reveals itself from an unexpected side. It is not perceived as an unforeseen situation when humanism is painted in misanthropic tones. There is no particular concern about the situation when humanism turns out to be a simulacrum and in its essence expresses an ordinary emptiness.

In various arrangements of humanism, we are talking about the cult of man, but man himself is seen as an evil, destructive creature. They talk about the inevitability of humanity, but paradoxically they put race, ethnicity and other social formations instead of a person. Abstract and concrete humanism are distinguished, but a real person finds himself in the chains of totalitarianism. Ordinary crimes are covered up with humanistic rhetoric.

The author of the article reflects on the paradoxes that are revealed upon closer examination of this concept.