ABSTRACT
In Principia Ethica (1903; the page references below are to the 1966 paper-
back edition), G.E. Moore famously claims that there are ‘organic wholes’,
the intrinsic values of which differ ‘from the sum[s] of the values of [their]
parts’ (p. 36). This is his ‘principle of organic unities’ (p. 184), and is the
form of holism about value with which we begin, but from which we will
depart.
