TWO ATTEMPTS TO FORECAST THE RENAISSANCE AS A REFLECTION OF EXTRAPOLATION METHODOLOGY

Abstract

The article focuses on continuous research and everyday interest in the Renaissance culture in general and research methods of this period in particular. Accepting the multi-vector nature of the Renaissance methodological culture as a whole, the author's attention is focused primarily on the prognostic methodology as such, which has a priority beginning in the general futurology of the Renaissance problems. The article examines and compares two attempts at forecasting, one of which belongs to Yuriy Kotermak - a Ukrainian scientist, and the second - to the Pskov monk Philotheus. Based on the comparison of the core axiological emphases and comparison by different criteria, some generalizations about the nature of intellectual traditions to the authors of these forecasts belonged to are proposed. The ideas about scientific objectivity of the era, particularly in relation to astrology, are clarified. Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of the thesis on the inheritance of the traditions of the Byzantine Empire formulated by Philotheus, including in the context of the restoration of canonical ties of Ukrainian Orthodoxy with the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Finally, the concept of futurological relevance of further research of the stated forecasting methods is suggested.