Virtues and vices

Philosophy

The delights of mischief

Ethics

Thinkers and theories

History of ideas

Tantra: enlightenment to revolution

Values and beliefs

Gender

Reasons to be cheerful

Mood and emotion

Meaning and the good life

You’re astonishing!

Why read Fichte today?

Metaphysics

Martha Nussbaum and Bryan Magee on Aristotle

Through the eyes of another

Social psychology

Sleepwalk to the gift shop

Stories and literature

Progress and modernity

How do you know you’re not dreaming?

Knowledge

Philosophy of religion

A God beyond logic

Nature and landscape

Political philosophy

Democracy entails conflict

Politics and government

Human rights and justice

Philosophy of language

On Wittgenstein

Beyond dust and grime

Imaginology

Consciousness and altered states

Cognition and intelligence

More than muses and martyrs

Philosopher of the apocalypse

Bacon and God’s wrath

Religion

Technology and the self

Since Derrida

What is movement?

Physics

Look on the dark side

Beauty and aesthetics

John Ruskin: in awe of nature

The lady vanishes

Philosophy of science

Who decides what art means?

Truth is real

Essays and videos on philosophy, the history of ideas, ethics and life’s big questions

Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon and the non-Western world.
