The problem of human nature conservation as a new dimension identity crisis

The philosophical anthropology under human nature traditionally understood persistent, unchanging features and properties inherent in man at all times, regardless of biological evolution and the historical process. Philosophers, focusing on the analysis of the social nature of man, its cultural conditioning, have developed a number of different interpretations of the concepts of the human essence. However, advances in science and technology allow recently directed transform what was seen as an invariant for millennia - the nature of man. In the context of industrial civilization to society is the problem: Who will be the man, whether there will be inherent in human nature it unchanged constant, not influenced, or its transformation to happen. In connection with the NBIC - technology and questioning about the prospects of a posthuman future, the problem of human nature has acquired a moral and ethical, value measurement. In this case, the absolute duty is to preserve "the ontological idea of man" (H. Jonas). It is important to understand the problem of human nature, taking into account advances in technoscience and from the standpoint of the modern historical consciousness, including the idea of global evolutionism. NBIC technologies are not just another scientific and technical development, they "blow up" the world of human life, up to the transformation of the very nature of man, his identity. The article examines how to rethink the identity of the person in connection with the problem of conservation of human nature. The various interpretations of the concept of "identity", such as the measure of his personal, social and cultural. The authors introduce an additional three under consideration a new dimension - natural or ontological dimension of identity. That it is the foundation of human self-identity allows him to keep his "essence" in all transformations, is the same basis on which to build human evolution. The natural dimension of human identity is not bound to the substrate, determines its own human, whether soul, mind or spirit, and function with form of activity performed by a human, social practices, to build on a sense of the dignity inherent to the individual. A qualitative change in the nature of man - not the way to improve his abilities and to the destruction of the whole system "Man-Culture-Society."

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