Quotes from Nigel Warburton

tevazu, utangaçl?k ile utanmazl?k aras?nda durur

bir çiçekle bahar gelmez ve bir günlük mutluluk da mutlu bir yaÅŸam? garanti etmez

Whether or not you can imagine your own death, it seems quite natural to be at least a bit afraid of not existing.

was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind

Zincirlerini k?ran kiÅŸi bir filozof gibidir. GörünüÅŸlerin ötesini görür. S?radan bir insan gerçeklik hakk?nda az fikre sahiptir, çünkü onu derinlemesine düÅŸünmemektense, hemen önünde duran ÅŸeye bakmaktan hoÅŸnuttur. Ne var ki görünüÅŸler aldat?c?d?r. Gördükler, gölgelerdir, gerçeklik deÄŸil.

Mill argued in The Subjection of Women (1869) that the sexes should be treated equally both in law and in society more generally.

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends.

Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.

Socrates "Life, he declared, is only worth living if you think about what you are doing. An unexamined existence is all right for cattle, but not for human beings.

The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain.

The problem as he saw it was not how short our lives are, but rather how badly most of us use what time we have.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

Human knowledge progresses when people recognize that they may be wrong even on issues that seem certain to them. Wisdom involves openness to those who disagree with us. It is only when our ideas have been subjected to criticism and all objections considered—if necessary seeking these objections out—that we have any right to think of our judgement as better than another's.

Pyrrho "You shouldn't rely on what you believe to be true. You might be mistaken. Everything can be questioned, everything doubted. The best option, then, is to keep an open mind. Don't commit, and you won't be disappointed.

Central to Mill's approach throughout On Liberty is his 'Harm Principle', the idea that individual adults should be free to do whatever they wish up to the point where they harm another person in the process. Mill's principle is apparently straightforward: the only justification for interference with someone's freedom to live their life as they choose is if they risk harming other people.

Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response.

Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church.

If you do something just because of how you feel that is not a good action at all.

We are all basically selfish, driven by fear of death and the hope of personal gain

Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm.

the mind shaping reality just is reality. There is nothing beyond it. But this did not mean that reality remained in a fixed state. For Hegel, everything is in a process of change, and that change takes the form of a gradual increase in self-awareness, our state of self-awareness being fixed by the period in which we live.

Instead of looking to increase our pleasure in life, they think, we should try to become better people and do the right thing. That is what makes a life go well.

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.