Table of Contents

1: What are the options?
I. Catching the contributory
2: Contributory reasons
3: Beyond favouring
4: Dropping the catch
II. From holism to particularism
5: Holism and its consequences
6: Can holism be true?
7: Competing pictures
8: Knowing reasons
III. Holism in the theory of value
9: Intrinsic and extrinsic value
10: Are there organic unities?
11: Rationality, value, and meaning
12: Principles of rational valuing

Reviews

`Review from previous edition How shall we fix the content of particularism? If anyone has earned the right to fix it it must be Jonathan Dancy . . . who has certainly, by his writings in the area over more than twenty years, given the term common currency in ethics. His rich and subtle new book . . . is a hugely rewarding and interesting read, at the cutting edge of contemporary debate in the area: truly a book that cannot be ignored. For my own part, I
look forward to continuing to enjoy and be instructed by Ethics without Principles for years to come.'
Timothy Chappell, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
`The book is high-octane philosophy. The structure is clear, the writing elegant, the argument peppered with outlooks into other areas of philosophy. A formidable experience.'
Christopher Fehige, Times Literary Supplement