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| author | Čapkovič, Anton |
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| contents | <p>This publication presents an extended conceptual framework for interpreting the Voynich Manuscript beyond traditional approaches focused on cryptography, medicine, botany, or alchemy. The study proposes that the manuscript can be understood as a polycentric model of ethical governance rather than as a text intended for explicit decipherment.</p> <p>The framework emphasizes the manuscript’s non-hierarchical structure, distributed organization of meaning, and systematic use of silence as a regulatory principle. Instead of providing explicit instructions or authoritative explanations, the manuscript appears to cultivate ethical restraint, proportionality of intervention, and responsibility on the part of the interpreter.</p> <p>This interpretation situates the Voynich Manuscript within a broader premodern tradition concerned with the governance of complex systems—biological, social, and epistemic—where limits of knowledge and intervention are explicitly acknowledged. The text is approached as a reflective and normative artifact rather than a technical manual or encoded message.</p> <p>The publication is intended as a conceptual and philosophical contribution to interdisciplinary discussions on governance, ethics of intervention, knowledge transmission, and the limits of algorithmic interpretation. It does not claim to decipher the manuscript’s script or language, but instead offers a framework for understanding why definitive decipherment may not be its primary function.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Voynich Manuscript as a Polycentric Model of Ethical Governance An Extended Conceptual Framework Čapkovič, Anton <p>This publication presents an extended conceptual framework for interpreting the Voynich Manuscript beyond traditional approaches focused on cryptography, medicine, botany, or alchemy. The study proposes that the manuscript can be understood as a polycentric model of ethical governance rather than as a text intended for explicit decipherment.</p> <p>The framework emphasizes the manuscript’s non-hierarchical structure, distributed organization of meaning, and systematic use of silence as a regulatory principle. Instead of providing explicit instructions or authoritative explanations, the manuscript appears to cultivate ethical restraint, proportionality of intervention, and responsibility on the part of the interpreter.</p> <p>This interpretation situates the Voynich Manuscript within a broader premodern tradition concerned with the governance of complex systems—biological, social, and epistemic—where limits of knowledge and intervention are explicitly acknowledged. The text is approached as a reflective and normative artifact rather than a technical manual or encoded message.</p> <p>The publication is intended as a conceptual and philosophical contribution to interdisciplinary discussions on governance, ethics of intervention, knowledge transmission, and the limits of algorithmic interpretation. It does not claim to decipher the manuscript’s script or language, but instead offers a framework for understanding why definitive decipherment may not be its primary function.</p> |
| title | The Voynich Manuscript as a Polycentric Model of Ethical Governance An Extended Conceptual Framework |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17983596 |