Reasons from Within defends the view that all our reasons for acting derive from our desires, and ultimately from our deepest concerns. There are no objective values in the world that could require our concerns to be other than they are. It will be of interest to anyone interested in the nature of values and reasons. a lucid and valuable contribution to the debate over internal and external reasons a debate which, in its present form, has now entered its thirty-first year. There is a wealth of material here, and much to provoke thought: Reasons from Within is recommended reading for anyone engaged with these particular ethical and metaethical issues.