Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-07-25T20:47:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MarisanePereiraSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 584830 bytes, checksum: 1b62a94c063839c0f4715aee9bdfecbe (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-08-02T20:35:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MarisanePereiraSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 584830 bytes, checksum: 1b62a94c063839c0f4715aee9bdfecbe (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-02T20:35:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MarisanePereiraSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 584830 bytes, checksum: 1b62a94c063839c0f4715aee9bdfecbe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-15 / Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a possibilidade de uma abordagem ?tica da rela??o entre homens e animais que, tanto quanto poss?vel, n?o se baseie nem em raz?es utilit?rias nem em raz?es indiretas para explicar a atribui??o de dignidade ou de direitos morais aos animais. Tomamos como pressuposto que alguns deles (se n?o todos) os possuem, e tentamos mostrar que uma ?tica de car?ter deontol?gico, centrada no ser humano como o agente, mas n?o restrita a ele enquanto objeto da a??o moral, pode fornecer um suporte te?rico para a fundamenta??o de tal atribui??o. A partir da an?lise das caracter?sticas principais da ?tica kantiana, e de algumas teorias alternativas, ser? poss?vel mostrar que uma teoria ?tica que n?o pressuponha reciprocidade nem dependa exclusivamente de interesses particulares humanos n?o apenas ? poss?vel como tamb?m se revela a mais sens?vel e adequada ? natureza dos nossos valores e do caso em quest?o. / The main concern of this work is to offer an analysis of the possibility of an ethical approach to the interaction between human beings and animals. As far as possible we seek an approach which rely neither on utilitarian considerations nor on indirect reasons to explain the attribution of dignity or moral rights to animals. We take for granted that some of them (if not all) do possess it. And then we try to show that a deontological ethical theory (one which centers in the human as the agent but is not restricted to humans as the objects of the moral action) can afford us a good theoretical basis for the grounding of the attribution of rights or dignity to animals. Analyzing the main features of Kantian ethics, as well as some of its alternatives, it will be possible to show that an ethical theory which does not presuppose reciprocity nor depends solely upon particular human concerns is not only possible but also reveals itself as the most sensible and adequate to the nature of our values and of the case at hand.