Global governance need not take a democratic form.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.

You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it to cognitive psychotherapy; in some cases you have to reject it even if it does indeed stay.

It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.