TY  - JOUR
T1  - Homo Sapience or Homo Cosmicus?
AU - Vladimir Vladimirovich, Lytkin 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 29
SP  - 6891
EP  - 6895
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.6891.6895
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6891.6895
KW  - Evolution of humanity
KW  -cosmic evolution
KW  -Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
KW  -space philosophy
KW  -Russian cosmism
KW  -SETI
AB  - This study explores the views of the founder of modern theoretical astronautics and missile building,
K.E. Tsiolkovsky, on the problem of human evolution and the possible role of extraterrestrial civilizations in it
scientist finds that inevitable transition of human evolution to cosmic evolution. Representatives of Russian
cosmism consider the anthropological evolution of mankind as their ascent on the way to the moral, spiritual,
intellectual and physical perfection. Addresses the aspect of adequacy of this views of K.E. Tsiolkovsky for
the views of contemporary scientists and philosophers. There is the conclusion of the progressive nature of
the "Cosmic philosophy" of K.E. Tsiolkovsky and its predictive focus.
ER  -