Political philosophy

Philosophy

Democracy is sentimental

Ethics

Thinkers and theories

Forget morality

Virtues and vices

A just and loving gaze

Philosophy of religion

Lies and honest mistakes

Information and communication

Culture

Should we censor art?

Beauty and aesthetics

Values and beliefs

Samurai rules for peace and war

History

Computing and artificial intelligence

Science

Should computers run the world?

Future of technology

Philosophers and other animals

Animals and humans

The right right thing to do

Meaning and the good life

Human rights and justice

Pause. Reflect. Think

Education

The inflation of concepts

Cities

Society

The harms of gentrification

Mind your motive: what would Kant do?

When to break a rule

Everything is stories: reviled and maligned

Social psychology

The semi-satisfied life

The ancient world

Ashoka’s moral empire

Global history

The trolley problem problem

Knowledge

Cognition and intelligence

Vice dressed as virtue

Mood and emotion

Psychology

The fruits of anger

At times of suffering, the greatest gift is accompaniment by another

Wellbeing

Self-improvement

Ecology and environmental sciences

Is there a limit to optimism when it comes to climate change?

Earth science and climate

If all our actions are shaped by luck, are we still agents?

Bioethics

Whose limb is it anyway? On the ethics of body-part disposal

Rituals and celebrations

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.
