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This volume addresses the the ethics of nationalism. Rather than analyzing the descriptive and prescriptive themes and issues of policy, this collection focuses on the deeper moral issues that must be addressed if a policy prescription is to be well grounded

A new powerful military weapon has appeared in the skies of world and with it a new form of warfare has quickly emerged bringing with it a host of pressing ethical questions and issues. This book brings together some of the best scholars currently working on these questions

Part I: Torture. What should we do about torture? / James Griffin -- Part II: War. The consequences of war / Thomas Hurka ; Humanitarian intervention, consent, and proportionality / Jeff McMahan -- Part III: Ethics, truth, and belief. Humanity and the perils of perniciously politicized science / N. Ann Davis ; Social moral epistemology and the tasks of ethics / Allen Buchanan ; The strains of dialogue / Richard Keshen -- Part IV: Bioethics and beyond. Humanity and hyper-regulation : from Nuremberg to Helsinki / Onora O'Neill ; Transhumanity : a moral vision of the twenty-first century / John Harris -- Part V: Some silences in Humanity. The foundations of humanity / Roger Crisp ; Bystanders to poverty / Peter Singer ; Compassion : human and animal / Martha Nussbaum -- Part VI: Personal. Jonathan Glover / Alan Ryan -- Part VII: Responses. Responses : a summing up / Jonathan Glover

Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the best moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty new essays in this book were written in his honour and have all been inspired by his work - in particular, his work in an area of moral philosophy known as 'population ethics', which is concerned with moral issues raised by causing people to exist. Until Parfit began writing about these issues in the 1970s, there was almost no discussion of them in the entire history of philosophy. But his monumental book 'Reasons and Persons' (1984) revealed that population ethics abounds in deep and intractable problems and paradoxes that not only challenge all the major moral theories but also threaten to undermine many important common-sense moral beliefs.

Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the most significant moral philosopher in well over a century. The 21 new essays in this book have all been inspired by his work. They address issues with which he was concerned in his writing, particularly in his seminal contribution to moral philosophy, 'Reasons and Persons' (1984). Rather than simply commenting on his work, these essays attempt to make further progress with issues, both moral and prudential, that Parfit believed matter to our lives: issues concerned with how we ought to live, and what we have most reason to do.