TOM REGAN: FROM RESPECT PRINCIPLE TO MORAL RIGHTS THEORY
Abstract
Faced with the difficulties of ethical and legal expansion in relation to the conception of rights of non-human animals, we aim through this study to argue against the speciesist ideal that permeates socio-environmental relations and to foster an ethical perspective capable of sustaining the moral considerability of non-human individuals. Making use of the works of Tom Regan that deal with the issue of animal rights, we present his perspective of justice and emphasize the relevance of the moral considerability of non-human animals and their insertion in morality as holders of fundamental rights, once considered 'patients' of the morality.
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