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2 - The Ontological Dimension

Reflections on Distorted Images and Normative Fragmentation

from Part I - The Contextual Challenges and Purpose of the Non-coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2024

Mart Susi
Affiliation:
Tallinn University
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The ontological dimension of human rights in the digital domain concerns its theoretical foundations and the content of human rights norms. Based on the Aristotelian theory of epistemology, this represents the side of objective reality. The non-coherence theory of digital human rights explores the ontology of human rights at various levels of generality. Eight justification models articulated for the human rights offline domain will be applied to digital human rights. If the implicitness of human rights online were to originate from this same online domain, it could no longer be viewed through non-coherence theory, as it would represent an entirely independent and separate paradigm of meanings. Since the online world is determined by technical possibilities, we can formulate a hypothesis that the gap between the implicit and explicit dimensions of human rights online are by default narrowing since these elements of implicitness, which cannot be realised online, are simply rejected.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • The Ontological Dimension
  • Mart Susi, Tallinn University
  • Book: The Non-Coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights
  • Online publication: 22 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009407717.004
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  • The Ontological Dimension
  • Mart Susi, Tallinn University
  • Book: The Non-Coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights
  • Online publication: 22 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009407717.004
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  • The Ontological Dimension
  • Mart Susi, Tallinn University
  • Book: The Non-Coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights
  • Online publication: 22 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009407717.004
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