The Problem of Sustainability in the Concept of A. A. Bogdanov (methodological aspect)

The article is focused on the problem of sustainability on the materials of A. A. Bogdanov's philosophy. A. Bogdanov. The correlation of quantitative and structural sustainability is emphasized, as well as the development of Bogdanov's idea and the author's elaboration of four types of sustainability is given: 1) response to the challenge of the extremes, 2) response to the alien, 3) reproduction of the system and the invisible shift of alienation; 4) tradition as a kind of sustainability, preserving the memory of the system in the patterns of responses. The methodological aspect of the sustainability model is illustrated. Key words: structural stability, quantitative stability, system, tectology, eternal civilization