The article examines the phenomenon of mankurtism from a historical and philosophical point of view and in the context of modern social practice. The introduction of this term is necessary for the study of those forms of social practice that threaten a person's national and cultural identity, undermine the development of his self-consciousness, thereby turning this person into a puppet in the hands of morally unscrupulous social forces. This kind of devaluation of personal individuality in modern culture is due to both objective trends of scientific and technological progress and malicious actions of social actors. The relevance of this problem encourages the creators of fiction to reflect accordingly. The problem of mancurtism was accentuated by Ch. Aitmatov. The conceptual study of this problem requires a historical and philosophical approach. At the same time, the fundamental methodological principle is the age principle of history analysis, which makes it possible to understand how, starting from the "axial time", the reflection of human self-consciousness deepened from epoch to epoch. The identification of nodal qualitative revolutions in this process contributes to the disclosure of the continuity of the progression from the Socratic revolution in philosophy and culture in general through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Modern Times to the Kantian revolution and then to the development of the project by the founder of the philosophy of Russian cosmism – Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov. The philosophical and anthropological project "Moscow Socrates" accumulates the potential of the history of world and domestic philosophical thought, producing an algorithm for the actualization of eternity (victory over the fate of death) and infinity (exploration of the expanses of the Universe) for the formation of cosmic self-consciousness. The opposite role is played by the technocratic project of transhumanists, which provokes mankurtism due to its one-sided scientism. The philosophical and anthropological project of Russian cosmism provides a conceptual basis for space pedagogy, in the light of which it makes sense to analyze specific pedagogical innovations.