CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE FORECAST OF THE RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION
The article deals with the forecast of Russian philosophical thought and its projection on the current social transformations associated with the development of outer space, in particular, with the formation of groups of earthlings preparing to colonize Mars and the Moon. In the light of contemporary social reality, the ideas offered by A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin, N.F. Fedorov, K.E. Tsiolkovsky, V.I. Vernadsky are analysed. Their visionary ideas about the need for and ways of evolution of mankind, in particular, in the sociosphere, as well as their understanding of the inevitable transformation of the global human society, preparing the formation of extra-planetary community of earthlings on other planets and satellites are examined.