DERECHOS DE LOS ANIMALES Y DERECHOS HUMANOS
Keywords:
ANIMAL RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS, SPECIESISM, ANIMAL PERSONALITYAbstract
Th e aim of the paper is to discuss the possibility to ground animal rights from a philosophical and a socio-legal perspective, dwelling in particular on the importance of surpassing the discrimination grounded on extraspecific differences (speciesism) for enforcing human rights and on the recognition of the animal personality based on animals’ capacity to think, to communicate and to feel