The Rights of Nature

This article examines the conceptual architecture of the rights of nature. To meet this objective, the article is divided into three parts. In the first part, I analyze the conceptual structures that shape three paradigmatic perspectives on rights of nature: the Ecuadorian, Bolivian, and New Zealand perspectives. In the second part of the article, and as a way to understand more clearly and precisely the idea of nature/subject, I analyze the idea of nature/object that emerges paradigmatically with the Bible, especially with the book of Genesis. In the third part, I study the concept of subject/nature as it appears in the poetry of Walt Whitman. Whitman’s work prototypically articulates one of the possible midpoints that exists between nature/object and nature/subject

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