La naturaleza sujeto de derechos?

Abstract

This present graduation work is focused on studying the possibility of acknowledging nature as a subject of rights. Based on that we have started from the study of the origins of right and its development, for later finding definitions that will make clear the concept of right that will lead us to understand if that acknowledging is possible. The task itself forms an interrelated system of theories that picks up from natural right, and positive right, at the same time it also studies the conceptions of biocentrism and of sumakkawsay. It considers nature to have an intrinsic value in which human beings as other species share and are interconnected in a unique biosphere or sheltered by the Pacha- mama. As an antithesis to prior conceptions we have reviewed anthropocentrism, which affirms that predominance of the human being over nature will lead human to develop scientifically, industrially and economically, but have put in danger the environment and brings with it new problems and ethical approaches As a vital and complementary element, we wanted to study briefly the positive right and subjective right, this affirms that only people or human beings are subjects of rights, denying like this the possibility to acknowledge nature as a subject of rights.