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"Zamrzlá" interpretace evoluční ontologie?

Title in English The "frozen" interpretation of evolutionary ontology?
Authors

MOUDR Vratislav

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Filosofický časopis
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Sports Studies

Citation
Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords evolutionary ontology; culture; nature; socio-cultural information; natural information; semantic aspect information; structural aspect information; spiritual culture; predatory paradigm; species selfishness
Description The author of this article reacts to a discussion study by Radim Šíp “How to Revive ‘Frozen’ Evolutionary Ontology”. He argues that Šíp’s critique is unacceptable, as is his proposal for a radical reform of the doctrine of Josef Šmajs. He draws attention to Šíp’s misinterpretation of the evolutionary-ontological theory of information and to the consequences of this misinterpretation for the other arguments in Šíp’s text. Šmajs‘ diagnosis of the problematic relation of culture and nature consists in a cleavage between natural information (structural and semantic) and socio-cultural information (semantic and structural). Šíp, however, mistakenly supposes that in evolutionary ontology there is an opposition between semantic, experiential information (natural and cultural) on the one hand and structural, genetic information (natural) on the other. It is only because of this misinterpretation that Šíp can treat the conflict between culture and nature as a conflict between man and nature, subject and object. Only thus can he treat evolutionary ontology as early-modern metaphysics and call for the recognition of a greater continuity between nature and culture-for the “appreciation” of allegedly unappreciated socio-cultural information.

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