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Nigel Warburton is a British philosopher. He is best known as a populariser of philosophy, having written a number of books in the genre, but he has also written academic works in aesthetics and applied ethics. Wikipedia  

✵ 1962
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“It is true that many of the problems with which professional philosophers deal do require quite a high level of abstract thought. However, the same is true of almost any intellectual pursuit: philosophy is no different in this respect from physics, literary criticism, computer programming, geology, mathematics, or history.”

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Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“A further justification for the study of philosophy is that for many people it can be a very pleasurable activity. There is something to be said for this defence of philosophy. Its danger is that it could be taken to be reducing philosophical activity to the equivalent of solving crossword puzzles.”

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Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“Another reason for studying philosophy is that it provides a good way of learning to think more clearly about a wide range of issues.”

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Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“Some students of philosophy have unreasonably high expectations of the subject. They expect it to provide them with a complete and detailed picture of the human predicament. They think that philosophy will reveal to them the meaning of life, and explain to them every facet of our complex existences. Now, although studying philosophy can illuminate fundamental questions about our lives, it does not provide anything like a complete picture, if indeed there could be such a thing. Studying philosophy isn’t an alternative to studying art, literature, history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, and science.”

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Nigel Warburton

Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“Philosophy is an activity: it is a way of thinking about certain sorts of question.”

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Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“What is philosophy? This is a notoriously difficult question. One of the easiest ways of answering it is to say that philosophy is what philosophers do, and then point to the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Russell, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and other famous philosophers. However, this answer is unlikely to be of much use to you if you are just beginning the subject, as you probably won’t have read anything by these writers.”

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Nigel Warburton

Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction

“One important reason for studying philosophy is that it deals with fundamental questions about the meaning of our existence.”

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Nigel Warburton

Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction