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A Brief Critique of Views that Deny Moral Status to Animals on Contractual Grounds

Fancesco Allegri

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Moral Status; Animal Ethics; Contractarianism; Contractualism; Animal Rights; Moral Community; Sentient Beings; Reciprocity; Social Stability; Interspecific Justice

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7358/rela-2025-02-allf

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Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism
Registered by Tribunale di Milano (04/05/2012 n. 211)
Online ISSN 2280-9643 - Print ISSN 2283-3196

Editor-in-Chief: Francesco Allegri
Associate Editor: Matteo Andreozzi 
Review Editors: Sofia Bonicalzi - Eleonora Adorni
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