Animal Rights and Human Responsibilities: Towards a Relational Capabilities Approach in Animal Ethics
Description:
In this thesis, I analyze some of the most important contributions concerning the inclusion of animals in the moral and political sphere. Moving from these positions, I suggest that a meaningful consideration of animals' sentience demands a profound, radical political theory which considers animals as moral patients endowed with specific capabilities whose actualization needs to be allowed and/or promoted. Such theory would take human-animal different types of relationships into account to deci…
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Date:
May 2018
Creator:
Guerini, Elena
Partner:
UNT Libraries