Especismo e natureza jurídica dos animais: a conjugação de imagens e argumentos na apreciação do problema

Abstract

This present study to analyze the controversial legal attributed to non - human animals in Brazilian law , demonstrating the unsustainability of attributing to these living beings the status of thing . To fulfill this aim , sought through a legal and philosophical analysis of arguments and images , understand who the animals and the relevance of sentience to the inclusion of non - human animals in the moral community are as well as the principle of equal consideration of interests similar erected by Peter Singer . After , is examined the history of man and his denial of the other , explaining why their speciesist position not to recognize animals as moral patients . Finally , proposed a reflection on the need to change the legal nature of animals , aventando able to consider them as subjects of rights , so that there is a more appropriate and effective protection .