Paola Cavalieri

Paola Cavalieri ( born 1950 ) is an Italian philosopher. She is the initiator of the Great Ape Project, claims for the fundamental rights of primates.

Life

Together with the Australian philosopher Peter Singer published Cavalieri the reader human rights for great apes: The Great Ape Project. The authors denounce it to the view of human beings to see themselves as the crown of creation.

Cavalieri also gained fame through her ​​first time in 2002 in German published book The question of the animal. In it she deals with the relation of man to animal and issues of animal ethics apart, shall in the close genetic relationship between humans and animals.

Works

Awards

  • 2011: Ethics Award of the Giordano Bruno Foundation

Swell

  • Tierrechtler
  • Philosopher ( 21st century)
  • Italian
  • Born in 1950
  • Woman
  • Giordano Bruno Foundation
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