  The very phrase “applied ethics”, now so familiar (and yet, one may think, tendentious), presupposes a tradition of ethical theories, such as his, that invite practical applications. In fact, he published his first paper in practical ethics, titled “Ethics and Politics”, in the Listener (1955). (Part of it is collected, under the title “Can I be Blamed for Obeying Orders?”, in Hare 1972a; there it is followed by three papers originally published in the 1950s, and more from the 1960s.) Better known is the last chapter of Freedom and Reason (1963), which addressed the issue, then (it seemed) wholly recalcitrant, of apartheid. And much else followed, with a stream of papers, and memberships of various advisory bodies (Hare 2002: 294–5). He was engaged especially by urban planning, where he favored radial over ring roads, and biomedical ethics, in which he labored to be logical and not just bien pensant. When a Society for Applied Philosophy was formed, he became its first President. So he looked forward to a profitable refocusing of his energies; and this, to an extent, occurred, even when the Center partly disappointed. As he notes, three out of four volumes of essays published between 1989 and 1993 fall within practical ethics (Hare 1989b, 1992a, 1993a).