Nigel Warburton

“Philosophy is not a spectator sport.”

— Nigel Warburton

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

— Nigel Warburton

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

— Nigel Warburton

“The problem as he saw it was not how short our lives are, but rather how badly most of us use what…

— Nigel Warburton

“The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living…

— Nigel Warburton

“Farm animals aren't the only ones that suffer at the hands of human beings. Scientists use animals for their research. It's not…

— Nigel Warburton

“But the basis of Freud's ideas aren't accepted by all philosophers, though many accept that he was right about the possibility of…

— Nigel Warburton

“A human being can choose what to do, what to become. We are all free. No one but you can decide what…

— Nigel Warburton

“In this short philosophical novel he completely undermined the kind of optimism about humanity and the universe that Pope and Leibniz had…

— Nigel Warburton

“Sartre explained what he meant by the anguish of choice through the true story of a student who had come to ask…

— Nigel Warburton

“If Abraham had gone ahead and killed his son he would have done something morally wrong. A father has a basic duty…

— Nigel Warburton

“One way of approaching the question about what makes a human being the same person over time would be to point out…

— Nigel Warburton

“Machiavelli stresses that it's better as a leader to be feared than to be loved. Ideally you would be both loved and…

— Nigel Warburton