ANIMALES: INSTRUCCIONES PARA EL NO USO

Abstract

The philosophy of Utopia proposes an experiment on life-dignity-death-painless in order to realize an ethical balance about the animal well-being and the recognition of animals rights. Traditionally, the duty of vegetarianism has been motivated as a duty of piety and of justice of the man in order to not making suff er animals and also as ethical humanist request for the hangman. However, the ethical speech about the protection of animals opposite to the
slaughter or the vivisection could be introduced in a wider context. A new context where “etica sapienzale” —the ethics of the wisdom— directs the vegetarianism towards the global horizon of the non-violence and tries to fulfill the Kantian imperative “to act considering the animal also a purpose and not only as way”.