Od wielkich łowów do zarządzania konfliktem. Racjonalizacja agresji jako próba emancypacji od zwierzęcej natury
From the Great Hunt to Conflict Management. Rationalization of Aggression as an Attempt to Emancipate from Animal Nature

Summary/Abstract: In classical social science paradigms, interpersonal conf licts are treated as an impediment to achieving goals or as an inherent element of social life which result from the existence of hierarchy and inequalities building tensions in the social structure. It is not infrequently acknowledged that culture constitutes an armor protecting people against their animal nature, which is the source of aggression. Rather, it seems to be armor that allows legitimizing violence through the use of altruistic punishment. The authors discuss the problem of aggressive behavior of a modern man from the evolutionary perspective. Is the occurrence of mobbing, harassment, symbolic violence or stigmatization of strangers and discrimination against minorities a result of conditions common to a man and other hominids shaped over millions of years, or the aftermath of the activation of the mechanism of extermination of other species by the representatives of our species which took place tens of thousands years ago? Homo sapiens does not belong to predators, which is the reason why both intraspecies and interspecies manifestations of aggression result in brutality, but also in moral dilemmas for this ape endowed with empathy.

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