Meaning and the good life

Philosophy

Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions

Thinkers and theories

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

Illness and disease

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

Travel

Values and beliefs

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

Childhood and adolescence

For a child, being carefree is intrinsic to a well-lived life

Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us?

Philosophy cannot resolve the question ‘How should we live?’

Spirituality

Time alone (chosen or not) can be a chance to hit the reset button

Mood and emotion

Don’t take life so seriously: Montaigne’s lessons on the inner life

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.
