From Paradise Lost to Paradise Conceptually Postponed: What Makes Scenarios of the Futures Being Staged

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by Svitlana Balinchenko1
1 Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/28/5
Received: 12 November 2021 / Accepted: 9 December 2021 / Published: 27 January 2022

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Abstract

In the article, the scenario-moulding is evaluated through the linguistic and conceptual accessibility of the future and the moral challenges of doing and allowing harm to the future participants of the practical discourses rooted in the present-centered scenarios. The viability of the scenarios is suggested to be defined by the alienation from the present and past imaginative contexts, as well as by overcoming the projections of humanity exclusiveness through inversible forecasting with the shift from human power to vulnerability as the key issue in scenario-making. The eccentric approach to the future makes it possible to review both intergenerational and intragenerational perspectives of the future through the chronological distance and yet-inexistent subjects’ expectations and needs simulation. Taking to account the impact of the past, present and future otherness implies the three-dimensional assessment model involving metaphorical evaluation of the past-rooted patterns as paradise lost, illusions of the accessible futures as paradise found, and refusal of the futurized present expectations for the yetunknown imaginative future contexts as paradise conceptually postponed. The approach can find its practical application in tailoring and evaluating migration solutions and scenarios.

Keywords: sustainability, futures studies, power, vulnerability, Doctrine of Doing and Allowing (DDE), scenario

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Balinchenko, Svitlana (2022) From Paradise Lost to Paradise Conceptually Postponed: What Makes Scenarios of the Futures Being Staged. Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 28, 51-62. https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/28/5
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