On the Prerequisites of Thinking Style

The article examines the prerequisites for the modern, that is, technical, style of thinking. The development of this style is traced from ancient thinkers, who were characterised by contemplation of truth through thinking, without the use of empirical methods of cognition, to the rationalism of the New Age and empiricism, which created favourable conditions for building the world in which we live today. The influence of the phenomenon of technology on the change in the style of human thinking, his physiology and nature as a whole is shown. The reflection of technology, which led from technology identical to good to technical pessimism, is traced. Attempts to define the phenomenon of technology by philosophers and engineers of the 19th–21st centuries are considered in order to overcome the crisis caused by the development of a technogenic society.