Nadurak V. Ethical dimension of noosphere's concept.

The theoretical meaningfulness of ethical dimension of noosphere's conception was accomplished in the dissertation. The views at Vernadsky's noosphere were investigated in detail and their ethical content was reconstructed. Considerable attention was paid to the analysis of ethical aspects of modern civilizational processes in the light of noosphere's conception. In such a way the ethical content of ecological crisis (overcoming of which, to the author's own opinion, demands the reinterpretation of traditional type of rationality, actualization of such moral virtue as moderation and also the principal of responsibility) was investigated; ethical dimension of globalization was worked up (there was made a stress on the necessity of universal ethic); there was also given a meaning to the status of a man in the process of the evolution of noosphere (there was underlined the exceptional role of moral regulations in the work of the scientist and the persons of planetary significance). Key words: noosphere, ethic of science, moderation, ecological crisis, the principal of responsibility, globalization, universal ethic, ecological crisis.