Future projects reflection as the prospect of humanitarian knowledge

Abstract

This article is intended to describe one of the most actual problem fields of
modern Humanitarian knowledge. It is a problem of researches of projects of the
Future. Scientific reflection of future projects is needed to understand the current
state of culture because they are immanent ways of self-culture and most clearly
demonstrate the intention of the Present. The understanding of ways of the selfdescription
of culture promotes development of humanitarian knowledge and helps
to understand mechanisms and cultural development factors. The article considers
some future projects, which were developed in the XX—XXI centuries: «New Age»,
«Earth Charter Initiative», project “Venus” by J. Fresco, «The Zeitgeist Movement
» and «Youth Time». The distinctive feature of these projects is to implement
their theoretical positions in cultural and social practices, the establishment on the
basis of some of these cultural movements and subcultures. These projects have
a positive and creative direction, which distinguishes them from catastrophic images
of the future. The emergence of such projects indicating the growing value
of personal activity and responsibility for the development of society, culture, and
nature. The article concludes that the scientific reflection of future projects can
build the future development of the culture and the humanities