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  1. See W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930), pp. 48–56.

  2. See H. J. McCloskey, “Moral Rights and Animals,” Inquiry, vol. 22, (1979); see also Carl Cohen, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 315, October 2, (1986).

  3. Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, trans. Louis Infield (New York: Harper & Row, 1930), pp. 239–240; also see Kant, The Doctrine of Virtue, trans. H. J. Paton (New York: Harper and Row, 1964), p. 108.

  4. See Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, esp. prt. I. q. 96, prt.II, 2nd prt., qq. 25, 72, 102, and Summa Contra Gentiles, bk. III, prt. II, chs.CXII&CXIII; see also Augustine, The Catholic and Manichean Way of Life, ch. 17; St. Paul, I Corinthians IX: 9 & 10; Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, 2nd ed. (New York: Avon Books, 1990), ch. 5; Mary Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1983), ch. 4; John Passmore, Man’s Responsibility for Nature (London: Duckworth & Co., 1974), ch. 2; Michael Allen Fox, The Case for Animal Experimentation (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1986).

  5. W. E. H. Lecky, History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, 3rd ed. (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1877), vol. 2, p. 179.

  6. See Joel Feinberg, “Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life,” in Feinberg Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980), p. 223.

  7. See Wesley Hohfield, Fundamental Legal Conceptions (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1964).

  8. See Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans. H. J. Paton (New York: Harper and Row, 1956), p. 89 ff.; see also Kant, The Doctrine of Virtue, and J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907), pp. 74–75.

  9. See Richard Price, A Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals, 3rd ed., in D. D. Raphael, ed., British Moralists 1650–1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), vol. 2, pp. 170–172.

  10. See J. O. Urmson, “Saints and Heroes,” in Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed. A. I. Melden (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1958).

  11. J. S. Mill, op. cit., p. 74.

  12. Jeremy Bentham, Anarchical Fallacies, in Human Rights, ed. A. I. Melden (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1970), p. 32.

  13. Vermont Statutes, “Vermont Good Samaritan Act,” title 12, ch. 23, sec. 519, (1967).

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Magnell, T. The Correlativity of Rights and Duties. J Value Inquiry 45, 1–12 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9266-0

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