Capabilities and Animal Rights: An Argument for M.C. Nussbaum"™s theory

Abstract

Many publications in the field of animal ethics consider the theories of Peter Singer and Tom Regan as the main arguments
for the direct moral consideration of non human animals. This paper argues that both those theories have to face serious
problems that make them difficult to accept and to apply, and proposes instead an alternative based on the recent work of M. C.
Nussbaum. She has drafted a theory in favor of the direct moral consideration of non human animals, which solves part of the
problems that the proposals of Singer and Regan could not.