Preface ......................................................... 9
Acknowledgements ............................................... 10
Introduction ................................................... 11
Chapter 1: The Concept of Human Rights & Its Importance ........ 19
Chapter 2: Human Rights & the Individual in Current Buddhist
Thought ............................................. 67
Chapter 3: Human Rights & the Individual in Current Roman
Catholic Thought ................................... 111
Chapter 4: Eco-Justice: The Necessity of Ecological Duties
as a Correlate to Human Rights ..................... 163
Chapter 5: A Global Ethic ..................................... 209
Conclusion .................................................... 229
Works Cited ................................................... 233
Index ......................................................... 251
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