THE LOGIC OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION - NATURAL-SELECTION AND SUBJECTIVE SELECTION

It has been repeatedly maintained that the selection mechanism is main ly ''subjective selection'' in the social evolution as against ''natur al selection'' in the biological evolution. But this claim derives fro m the misconceptualization of the mechanism of social evolution. Theor etical entities that are selected are ''individuals'' as physical enti ties in the biological evolution as against ''subjects'' as ideal enti ties in the social evolution. Because of the confused identification o f both entities, the logic of biological reductionism and the above cl aim are deduced. Based on the proper conceptualization, it is supposed that on the basis of subjects' worlds (knowledges, beliefs) the natur al selection is the selection mechanism effects on the rules of subjec ts and the subjective selection is the selection mechanism effects on the actions of subjects. Therefore the logic of the explanation for th e contains of subjects' worlds is indispensable so that the observer c an discriminate between the natural selection and the subjective selec tion in the actual process of social evolution.