DOI: 10.24019/issn.2532-0831

Online ISSN 2532-0831

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Vascular Research

Journal website: http://www.vasculab.eu/jtavr.xml

JTAVR 2017;2(2): 61-65

Humans and Animals: Issues in Ethics

A Nettuno¹

Abstract In the last decades of the twentieth century the question of relationship between humans and animals has become a very important area of Applied Ethics. Indeed, starting from seventies the specism (considered as form of discriminatory of non-human animals) has been put to the center of moral reflection mainly thanks to Peter Singer and Tom Regan. The debate is still in progress and have been added other philosophical positions, as an example the Ethics of care (Rosalynd Hursthouse) and Egalitarianism (Ingmar Persson). Therefore, Pollo's text represents a valuable contribution of sentimentalism ethics to modern Animal ethics. The author's analysis does not want to be exhaustive, but it want to be instrument to reflect on ethical questions between humans and animals.