%0 Journal Article %T Reflexiones morales sobre los animales en la filosof¨ªa de Martha Nussbaum %A Mart¨ªn Blanco %A Sara %J Revista de Bio¨¦tica y Derecho %D 2012 %I Universitat de Barcelona %R 10.4321/S1886-58872012000200006 %X the main question about moral treatment to non-human animals is not anymore a matter of applied ethics, assumed by some intellectuals, but a social demand which urges for its resolution. as a response to this requirement, martha nussbaum, offers -opposite to the proposals by peter singer, richars m. hare or tom regan- a new perspective to abord the speciesist problem: the capabilities approach. in this article we expose the main ideas in the nussbaum iniciative, and question, as a discussion, some aspects on her capacities focus. %K capability %K flourishing %K dignity %K sentience %K global justice. %U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1886-58872012000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en