O princípio da beneficência e os animais não-humanos: uma discussão sobre o problema da predação e outros danos naturais

• Autores: Luciano Carlos Cunha
• Localización: Agora: Papeles de filosofía, ISSN 0211-6642, Vol. 30, Nº 2, 2011, págs. 99-131
• Idioma: portugués
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  • En este artículo defiendo el deber de minimizar los daños sufridos por animales no- -humanos causados no por el uso de estos como recursos, sino naturalmente. Usaré como ejemplo, a pesar de no ser los únicos, la depredación y la muerte por inanición, norma en la vida salvaje, a los cuales llamaré daños naturales. Inicialmente, presento una argumentación contra el especismo, para enseguida argumentar que la �respuesta-padrón� dada hasta ahora al problema de los daños naturales es insuficiente. A continuación, defiendo la tesis de la equivalencia contra la relevancia de la distinción entre acciones y omisiones, ya que tal distinción está presente en varios argumentos contra la intervención en los daños naturales. Finalmente, argumento contra la visión del carácter sagrado de los procesos naturales, del apartheid de las especies y de la veneración por el equilibrio natural.

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