RECONSTRUCTING THE HUMAN AFTER TECHNOCULTURE: PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATIONAL HUMANISM

Abstract

Contemporary philosophical anthropology faces a double challenge: digital mediation, biotechnology, and ecological crisis transform the conditions of human subjectivity, embodiment, and responsibility, while the classical humanist image of the human as a stable and autonomous center no longer provides an adequate explanatory framework. The article advances the hypothesis that this crisis can be overcome not by abandoning the human question, but by reconstructing philosophical anthropology as a dynamic conceptual field linking ontology, lived experience, interpretation, and normativity. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the proposal of transformational humanism as a philosophical-anthropological model that preserves the normative vocabulary of dignity, recognition, agency, and responsibility without returning to rigid universalism or classical anthropocentrism. The significance of the article consists in showing that technological and ecological transformations should be understood not merely as external social changes, but as conditions that reshape the very structure of human becoming. The author concludes that humans should be interpreted as historically variable, embodied, relational, vulnerable, and technologically mediated. On this basis, universality appears as an open horizon of recognition, subjectivity as mediated but not abolished agency, and responsibility as the task of shaping just conditions of coexistence in a more-than-human world. and responsibility. Against both rigid humanist universalism and radically anti-normative posthumanism, the article proposes transformational humanism as a philosophically defensible configuration for understanding the human under conditions of mediation, vulnerability, and becoming. On this view, universality is best understood as an open horizon of recognition, subjectivity as mediated but not abolished agency, and responsibility as the task of shaping just conditions of coexistence in a more-than-human world.