Nociones Conceptuales Acerca de la Personalidad Jurídica de la Naturaleza y su Entendimiento Social
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article describes through the worldview of the ancestral peoples of the Americas the conceptual notions surrounding the legal personhood of nature and its understanding within society. To this end, I employ analytical and descriptive methods alongside a review of relevant documents; the research aims to break down the legal conceptualization of nature and its implications for human development, tracing the shift from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism and examining the legal milestones that shaped the interpretation of this concept and its impact on the science of law. The study concludes that nature serves as a guiding principle of human thought—a constant across diverse civilizations worldwide. Whether to make sense of their surroundings or to fulfill spiritual needs, peoples of ancient civilizations developed an abstraction for everything existing outside their own species and not of their own making: a concept they named "nature."
Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204923354