Critique of Dialectical Spiritual Realist Social Ontology
The source is a critical response to a social and ethical framework proposed by "Otti Vogt," specifically his "Dialectical Spiritual Realist Social Ontology" (DSR). The author is engaging in a philosophical polemic, analysing Vogt's framework—which is grounded in participatory metaphysics, virtue ethics, and an objective Good—through the lenses of their own concepts: the Mediated Encounter Ontology (MEOW) and the Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH). The central argument is that while Vogt's ontology is internally coherent and functions well within small, aligned groups, it is fundamentally unsustainable and fails to scale across diverse populations without generating power asymmetries and requiring compliance rather than genuine participation. The critique systematically examines how the framework encounters problems relating to semantic drift, interpretive authority, and the inherent power dynamics that emerge when ethical claims are grounded in an abstract, transcendent moral centre.
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