动物法律地位之探讨——兼析我国民事立法对动物的应有定位

动物保护是一个全球性的话题。对动物的保护是否必须通过改变动物的客体地位 ,使其人格化、主体化的方式方能实现 ?笔者通过对《德国民法典》的相关规定和国内外学说的考证 ,以及对动物主体化观点的剖析 ,认为动物不可能成为人类道德和法律的主体 ,动物在法律上仍是特殊的物 ,动物保护立法是动物商品价值与非商品价值、当代人利益与后代人利益冲突的产物 ,对动物的区别对待 ,实质上体现的仍是不同动物对人类的不同利益。

A Research on the Legal Status of Animals

The problem of animals' protection is a piece of topic to which scholars and legislators all over the world pay attention It is essential to protect animals by making animals personification and changing animals status from legal object to legal subject? Through reviewing the correlative law and theory, and analyzing opinions of scholars who regard animals as legal subject, auther brings forward that it`s necessary to protect animals by law ,yet animals can not be subject They are still special res The law of animals protection result from the conflict between animals commodity value and non-commodity value, and the conflict between the different generations benefit The essence why people treat animals differently reveals human beings different benefit from animals