Bekh Y. Philosophical model of selfdevelopment of social world: gnosiological analysis

The thesis is devoted to the systematic analysis of the society's self-development. It describes in details the genesis, nature, essence, contents, forms of its existence on micro, macro and mega levels. It analyses social process and its product. The process is presented through the perspective of the subject reproducing it; consciousness type and energy which powers it; body which generates it; ontology of semantic component on each level; source and transformation mechanism of the semantic component on the higher level. Social products: community, society and noosphere are presented with the relevant form of existence, element base and structure, which saves their attributive properties. The model of self-development of the society is described as a three-stage process with attention to determination, type of dominating causality, contents of ontological transformations, specificity of self-reproduction, intermediaries who ensure transition from one level to another and also self-regulation method.Separately self-development of the society in the dimension of the Ukrainian segment of general evolution field was researched.