Essay/ Mental Health The usefulness of dread My anxiety has been lifelong but I would not wish it away. It has made me the philosopher – and person – that I am today Samir Chopra
Essay/ Values & Beliefs Enjoy! Philosophers have traditionally been highly suspicious of fleeting pleasures, but to enjoy the moment is a radical act Sandy Grant
Idea/ Meaning & the Good Life How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis Kieran Setiya
Video/ Love & Friendship Two hot-air balloon repairmen on crafting a life of small pleasures and great contentment 5 minutes
Idea/ Meaning & the Good Life If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living? Andrew Taggart
Essay/ Meaning & the Good Life Natural-born existentialists Ethics cannot be based on human nature because, as evolutionary biology tells us, there is no such thing Ronnie de Sousa
Essay/ Meaning & the Good Life Do we matter in the cosmos? Humanity is nothing more than a microscopic blip in the universe. But does that mean we are insignificant? Nick Hughes
Essay/ Values & Beliefs Dissolving the ego You don’t need drugs or a church for an ecstatic experience that helps transcend the self and connect to something bigger Jules Evans
Video/ Meaning & the Good Life Late in life, Fred finds joy – and a ‘rhythm in all things’ – through tap dance 6 minutes
Essay/ Meaning & the Good Life End-times for humanity Humanity is more technologically powerful than ever before, and yet we feel ourselves to be increasingly fragile. Why? Claire Colebrook
Idea/ Values & Beliefs How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian hedonists Roman Krznaric
Classic /Meaning & the Good Life CLASSIC On the happy life Lucius Annaeus Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 64 CE With a new introduction and commentary by Massimo Pigliucci
EXCLUSIVE Video/ Meaning & the Good Life After a landslide destroys her village, a woman rebuilds her life in a changed landscape 14 minutes
ORIGINAL Video/ Neuroscience A happy life is built on pleasures such as sex and food, but also company and variety 7 minutes
Video/ Film & Television ‘What’s going on?’ How seeking meaning is futile in the Coen Brothers’ universe 8 minutes
Essay/ Meaning & the Good Life Dreadful dads Few of the great existentialists had children. How can their philosophy help with the anxiety and dread of fatherhood? John Kaag & Clancy Martin
Essay/ Love & Friendship Bad friends Even the best of friends can fill you with tension and make you sick. Why does friendship so readily turn toxic? Carlin Flora
Idea/ Meaning & the Good Life Why the simple life is not just beautiful, it’s necessary Emrys Westacott
Essay/ Work Fuck work Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore? James Livingston
Idea/ Meaning & the Good Life What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life Sebastian Purcell
Essay/ Illness & Disease Being ill, living well Some say that illness is morally improving, others that there is nothing good about being sick. Can philosophy adjudicate? Ian J Kidd
Essay/ Ethics The case against pets A morally just world would have no pets, no aquaria, no zoos. No fields of sheep, no barns of cows. That’s true animal rights Gary L Francione & Anna E Charlton