The Right of the Soul: Information Pollution and Digital Lynching | 魂の権利: 情報公害とデジタルリンチ
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This research aims to chart a new horizon for human rights theory, centered on the "subject breathing here and now".
First, following the historical development of rights such as the right to privacy, this study clarifies the philosophical prerequisites of personality rights. By conceptualizing the "Right of the Soul" within a secular framework of legal philosophy as the equivalent of a mathematical imaginary axis (i), it explores the possibility of representing the invisible "erosion of the soul" as a geometric area. Furthermore, it cites suicide resulting from digital lynching as a case study and addresses the existence of "Information Pollution." This work is a deliberate attempt to construct a concrete and inviolable "bulwark" against the systematic, albeit unconscious, dismantling of personhood prevalent in modern society and legal philosophy.
Within the history of philosophy, this study redefines the Platonic and Aristotelian concepts of the "soul" as a secular structure through the lenses of phenomenology and neuroscience, presenting a synthetic theory—without ostensible novelty—that serves as a critical ontological foundation for personality rights.
本研究は、「いま、ここで呼吸する主体」として尊重されるための、新たな人権論の地平を提示することを目指す。
まず、プライバシー権などの発達に倣い、人格権の前提条件を法哲学的に明確化する。そして、世俗側の法哲学の枠組み内における「魂の権利」を、数学的な虚数軸に相当する概念とすることで、目に見えない「魂の削り取られ」を面積として表現する可能性を模索する。また、適用例としてデジタルリンチによる自死を挙げ、情報公害の存在に言及する。現代社会と法哲学において無自覚に、しかし組織的に行われてきたであろう人格の解体に対して、具体的かつ不可侵の「防壁」を築く試みである。
なお、哲学史上においては、プラトン・アリストテレス的魂概念を、現象学と神経科学を通じて世俗側の構造として再定義し、人格権の存在論的基礎として提示する、新規性のない統合理論である。
※日本語版は下部に記載しています。
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