The article deals with the fate of the project of philosophical anthropology from M. Scheler to the current situation. Despite the great popularity, the interest in this discipline has died away, and its subject has become significantly diffused. In the framework of the task set by Scheler, it turned out to be unrealizable. However, now we can talk about the reanimation of this project in connection with the identification of common areas of intersection between humanitarian and natural sciences ideas ofhumans - this is the problem of overcoming human in humans, which in the humanitarian tradition is known primarily as an idea of superman in Nietzsche, and in natural sciences and technological tradition nowadays it is revealed as the task of technical transformation of humans within the framework of posthumanism and transhumanism.