Human and state security: from need to concept

Abstract

The phenomenon of security since the time of Plato, who identified it as one of the human needs, belongs to that rare group of phenomena that will remain in demand forever, regardless of the change of ideologies and eras. Only technologies and mechanisms for ensuring security are changing, which is facilitated by the tech-nological singularity, the accelerated progress of information and communication technologies. Nevertheless, the question remains open of what comes first: the security of human or state. Even in the Modern Era, after the terrible world wars, terrorist attacks, man-made disasters, the approaches to answering this question have changed many times. In connection with the above, the purpose of this work is to trace the development of philosophical thought on security issues, as well as to de-termine approaches to the modern understanding of this phenomenon, prob-lems of meanings and values. Through the use of general logical, empirical and theoretical methods, an idea of new trends in the field of security is formed, which testify to the formation of the concept of human security.