Relativism in the Language of Law (on the Example of Legal Texts Concerning the Constitutionally Unregulated Human-Animal Relationship)
- Institution: University of Rzeszów
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7646-2023
- Institution: University of Rzeszów
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8866-4738
- Institution: University of Rzeszów
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1324-7948
- Year of publication: 2021
- Source: Show
- Pages: 407-418
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2021.06.32
- PDF: ppk/64/ppk6432.pdf
The article covers the issue of anthropocentrically conditioned relativism characterizing the attitude of humans toward animals. The relativity of good and evil in this respect was viewed through the prism of selected legal texts. Linguistic examples were indicated (various parts of speech, expressions, substitutions, collocations) attesting to cases of normative consent to the violation of animal welfare, resulting, as it may be assumed, from the subject approach to them and subordinating human welfare to them. The need to give the issue of animal protection a constitutional rank was also expressed.
