VIDA SEM DIGNIDADE? A BUSCA POR UM SENTIDO INTEGRATIVO EM DIGNIDADE PARA A NATUREZA, A CONDIÇÃO HUMANA E A CONDIÇÃO NÃO HUMANA

Abstract

The existential threats to the integrity of life in all its forms, accelerated by the new Geological Era, the Anthropocene, and those arising from contemporaneity, raise the need for proposing a relationship of approximation between Law and Nature, as an indispensable condition to face such threats, from coherent solutions and with priority objectives. In this context, the main difficulty for transformation is identified as the need for recognizing (and considering) those who have no voice and demand protection for their value per se. Thus, this paper proposes to investigate to what extent one could also offer protection to non-human life through the content of dignity. In this way, based on the inductive method and on bibliographic research, supported by theoretical and normative models on the subject, dignity is considered as a vehicle of humanity and not of personality, a premise on which the sense of integrative dignity is emphasized, in which everything with value should also have dignity.