This research aims to chart a new horizon for human rights theory, centered on the "subject breathing here and now. "Following the historical trajectory of privacy rights, this study clarifies the philosophical prerequisites of personality rights. It proposes a novel framework where the invisible "erosion of the soul" is quantified as a geometric area (D), citing suicide resulting from digital lynching as a primary case study. This work is a deliberate attempt to construct a concrete and impregnable "bulwark" against the systematic—albeit unconscious—dismantling of personhood prevalent in modern society and legal philosophy. From a historical-philosophical perspective, this study redefines the Platonic and Aristotelian concepts of the "soul" as a secular structure through the lenses of phenomenology and neuroscience. It presents itself as a synthetic theory with no ostensible novelty, yet it serves as a critical ontological foundation for the future of personality rights.
Hirofumi Miyauchi (Tue,) studied this question.