Animals, Nature, Persons

Abstract

The moral, political, and legal aspects of the concept of rights would mean nothing at all if they weren’t somehow connected to the category of the legal person. Who is the legal person? And must it be a ‘person’ at all? Are there, in other words, any limits to what can count as a legal person? And finally, is there a difference between the ‘subject’ of rights and the ‘legal person’? This section will offer some answers to these questions, in the hope of elucidating how nature has come to be represented by some as pertaining to this category.