Semioethics’ Quest for Responsible Semiosis and Some Relevant Intuitions of Religious Philosophy
摘要
In their recent article, Augusto Ponzio and Susan Petrilli defend the ubiquity of the semiotic process underlining the particular place of the human being as the only agent capable of metasemiosis and, as such, responsible for keeping the world’s semiosis “healthy”. The method for this endeavour is called “semioethics”. The authors mention among their inspirations Mikhail Bakhtin, they also mention Vernadsky’s theory of biosphere. We will highlight another concept of Vernadsky, the noosphere, and compare his and Bakhtin’s theory to the semioethic approach. We will also trace some common roots of Vernadsky’s and Bakhtin’s theory in Vladimir Solovyov’s philosophy.