Essays on Political Morality

These essays represent Hare's thinking on a range of contemporary issues in political morality, including political obligation, terrorism, morality and war, rights, quality, and the environment. Three of the essays are previously unpublished.

R. M. Hare, FBA, was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1983, and Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, Gainesville, thereafter. His many publications include The Language of Morals (1952), Freedom and Reason (1963), Moral Thinking (1981), Plato (Past Masters, 1982), Essays in Ethical Theory (1989), Essays on Political Morality (1989), Essays on Bioethics (1993), and Sorting Out Ethics (1997), all published by Oxford University Press.