THE PROBLEM OF TECHNOSCIENCE AND RELIGIOUS VALUES INTERACTION: FROM "TECHNOCRATIC CONCEPT" AND IDEAS OF L. MUMFORD TO MODERN CONCEPTS
The paper reveals modern science, especially its ever-increasing role of technical knowledge in it, and its possible interaction with religious values. The ideas of different philosophers considering axiological, social and anthropological aspects of science, technical knowledge, equipment and technology from the «technocratic vision» (T. Veblen, and A. Bird, A. Frisch and others) to the ideas of L. Mumford modern ideas about the role of the value of knowledge in technoscience (V. Stepin, H. Lenk, etc.) are analyzed in the article. The necessity of the ethical education and the formation of ‘the ethical code'' of the scientist and the engineer, as well as the existing of the religious values in this process are shown in the article.