Meaning and the good life

Philosophy

You’re astonishing!

Values and beliefs

Mood and emotion

Virtues and vices

Look on the dark side

Thinkers and theories

The happiest guy in the world

Subcultures

Personality

Travel

Culture

The end of travel

The environment

Fifty per cent

Illness and disease

Life stages

Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions

Stories and literature

Love and friendship

Psychology

Treasure them

Family life

Authenticity is a sham

Self-improvement

Gardening with Nietzsche

Wellbeing

Pleasure and pain

You and the thing that you love

Final thoughts

Death

War and peace

Society

Reading John Gray in war

Ethics

The right right thing to do

Human rights and justice

Maria’s way

Rituals and celebrations

Ping pong Sufi

Religion

Humanity at night

Biography and memoir

History of ideas

Why do we love? A philosophical enquiry

Cognition and intelligence

The science of wisdom

Why read Boethius today?

Philosophy of religion

The semi-satisfied life

Knowledge

Plato’s allegory of the cave

Laughter is vital

Lyubov: love in Russian

The final nights

Ageing and death

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.
