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There are various versions of moral particularism, this dissertation deals with Jonathan Dancy's version of moral particularism. Dancy's particularism is a meta-ethical view maintains that the possibility of moral thought and judgment does not depend on the provision of a suitable supply of moral principles. This view is in contradiction to generalism. Dancy's particularism has two other main claims: there is no good reason to think that there is any suitable supply of moral principles, and moral principles, if there are any, are not useful. These claims are independent, but each of them depends on the doctrine of holism in the theory of reasons. This doctrine maintains that a feature that...