The relationship between Humans and animals: Some ethical problems

Abstract

The author considers the problem of moral rights of the animals. Moral rights are realized in the demand to consider the interests of the individual, striving for his/her/its own good. In other words, the concept of moral law is a brief designation of the way moral subjects should or should not treat a particular being (in this case, an animal), basing themselves on moral norms. A number of cases of conflict of values are considered and an attempt is made to understand the grounds on which the priority is given to certain values.