Beauty and aesthetics

Philosophy

Great art explained: Mona Lisa

History of ideas

Philosophy of science

The beautiful experiment

History of science

Bioethics

We are all frail

Ethics

Fairness and equality

Thinkers and theories

Why philosophy needs myth

Stories and literature

The ancient world

Knowledge

How do you know?

Philosophy of mind

Values and beliefs

Hegel today

Metaphysics

Philosophy of language

The development of mindreading

Childhood and adolescence

Life stages

Against longtermism

The future

The Rashomon effect

Cognition and intelligence

When hope is a hindrance

Political philosophy

War and peace

Meaning and the good life

Fifty per cent

Illness and disease

Alison Gopnik: Cognition, care and spirituality

Human evolution

What is ‘the West’?

Nations and empires

Politics and government

The invention of individual responsibility

Germany’s Wollstonecraft

Gender

Small is beautiful: impressions of Fritz Schumacher

Economics

History of technology

The mind does not exist

Psychiatry and psychotherapy

The view from her

Gender and identity

Democracy is sentimental

Can culture degenerate?

Progress and modernity

In praise of possibility

Economic history

Don’t farm bugs

Animals and humans

Food and drink

Forget morality

Virtues and vices

Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions

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.
