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"The subject of this book is moral change, including moral progress and regression. The intention is to use the best thinking about the evolution of morality and the best available social science research to determine the possibilities for progressive change in human moralities by examining important morally progressive changes that have already occurred, in order to determine the social conditions that are conducive to moral progress"--

This work challenges traditional and contemporary just war theorizing, by taking seriously the role of social practices and institutions in decisions to go to war. It argues that which substantive moral principles regarding the initiation of war are valid can depend upon the institutional processes within which the decisions are made.

Biotechnologies enable us to be smarter, have better memories be stronger and quicker, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. Buchanan explores urgent ethical issues raised by these developments, about what it is to be human and what sort of society we should strive to have

Justice, legitimacy, and human rights / Victoria Davion and Clark Wolf, eds. -- Taking the human out of human rights / Rex Martin and David A. Reidy, eds. -- Equality and human rights -- Human rights and the legitimacy of the international legal order -- Legitimacy -- The legitimacy of global governance institutions / Robert O. Keohane, second author -- The legitimacy of international law / Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas, eds. -- Democracy and the commitment to international law -- Constitutional democracy and international law : are they compatible? / Russell Powell, second author -- The internal legitimacy of humanitarian intervention -- Beyond the national interest / Martha Nussbaum, ed -- Institutionalizing the just war -- Justifying preventive war / Henry Shue and David Rodin, eds. -- From Nuremburg to Kosovo : the morality of illegal international legal reform

A CONSENSUS THAT THERE IS (AT LEAST) A RIGHT TO A DECENT MINIMUM OF HEALTH CARE PERVADES RECENT POLICY DEBATES AND MUCH OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE ON HEALTH CARE. DISAGREEMENT CENTERS ON TWO ISSUES. IS THERE A MORE EXTENSIVE RIGHT THAN TO A DECENT MINIMUM OF HEALTH CARE? WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE DECENT MINIMUM TO WHICH THERE IS A RIGHT?

Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress-explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile moral progress can be.

The many questions that surround movements for secession and self-determination are both practically urgent and theoretically perplexing. The United States settled its secession crisis in the 1860s. But the trauma and unfinished business of those events are still with us. Around the world secession and self-determination are the key issues that cause strife and instability. This volume provides an unusually comprehensive consideration of the many challenges of law and political philosophy that accompany them, and offers theoretical insights that provide guidance for policy. Among the questi.