VIRTUAL REALITY AND ETHICAL NEUTRALITY OF THE VIRTUAL SUBJECTS OF LAW

Dragan Mitrović

DOI Number
10.22190/FULP1702115M
First page
115
Last page
125

Abstract


The existence of legal reality implies the existence of the subjects of law as the creations of that reality. The law cannot even exist without its subjects. They are conditio sine qua non for the law. First, natural persons had become the subjects of law – although not all of them and not at the same time, and thereafter their creations - legal (moral) persons, also became the subjects of law. In both cases, it is about traditional virtual legal creations. However, as the information and technological developments could not have bypassed contemporary law, more and more frequently and intensively it is being thought about the third type of the subjects of law – virtual characters as the new subjects of law (law avatars). Today, this is not done out of curiosity, but for very practical reasons – i.e. for promoting business communication that is rapidly migrating to the area of computer virtual reality. Such a change requires reconsideration of traditional beliefs and theories about what a subject of law is. It also requires determining the possible legal nature of virtual characters, irrespective of whether it is about virtual natural or legal persons. When it comes to the explanation of their essence, it seems that at this moment the fiction theory is more acceptable than the reality theory, which might prevail sometime, as it had happened with the subjectivity of the legal person at some point in time in the 17th century.


Keywords

subject of law. − natural person − legal person − virtual character − ethics

Full Text:

PDF

References


Antić, O. (2007), Law of contracts and torts, Belgrade.

Ashvaghosha (1900), The Awakening of Faith, Chicago.

Bohm, D. (2004), On Creativity, London & New York.

Bohm, D. (2004), On Dialogue, London & New York.

Bohm, D. (2002), Wholeness and the Implicate Order, London & New York.

Capra, F. (1989), The Tao of Physics. An Exploration of Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism, Belgrade.

Flusser, V. (1990), “A Spoon of Creativity from the Soup of Chaos”, Treći program, Belgrade, winter 1990, Vol. I, No. 84, pp. 266–287.

Gams, A. (1988), Introduction to Civil Law, Belgrade.

Melvinger, J. (1965), Introduction to Law, Novi Sad.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (2004), TheWorld of Perception, London & New York.

Mitrović, D. M. (2016), Introducton to Law, Belgrade.

Mitrović, D. M. (2015), Autonomous Law, Belgrade.

Mitrović, D. M. (2010), Theory of the State and Law, Belgrade.

Mitrović, D. M. (2002), The Path of Law. Holistic paradigm of the world and law in the light of chaos theory and legal theory, Belgrade.

Nietzsche, F. (1976) Aus dem Nachlass der achtziger Jahre, Belgrade.

Paunović, M. (2005), The Rights of Animals, Belgrade.

Popper, K. (2002), Conjectures and Refutations, London and New York.

Popper K. (1991), Unended Quest. An Intellectual Authobiography, Belgrade.

Pound, R. (2000), Jurisprudence, Vol. II, Belgrade −Podgorica.

Stanković, O. (1996), Introduction to Civil Law, Belgrade.

Stojanović, D., Antić, O. (2004), Introduction to Civil Law, Belgrade.

Suzuki, D. T. (1952), Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra, London.

Visković, N. (2006), Theory of the State and Law, Zagreb.

Vukadinović, G. (2007), Theory of the State and Law II, Novi Sad.

Zivanović, T. (1959), The System of Synthetic Philosophy of Law), Vol. III, Belgrade.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.22190/FULP1702115M

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


ISSN 1450-5517 (Print)
ISSN 2406-1786 (Online)