Volume 9, Issue 17/18, April/November 2001
Sônia T. Felipe
Pages 21-48
Da Igualdade. Peter Singer e a Defesa Ética dos Animais Contra o Especismo
This article both introduces and reconstructs Singer’s arguments in favor of the extension of the ethical principie of equality to protect the interests of sentient animais. The concepts of speciesism, suffering and the value of life, as well as the distinction between the life of a human being and the life of a person are specially considered in this reconstruction of Singer’s animal ethics and its utilitarian influence.