Thinkers and theories

Philosophy

A just and loving gaze

Ethics

Philosophy of religion

Reincarnation now

Metaphysics

Cosmopolitanism

Computing and artificial intelligence

Science

Machine in the ghost

Religion

Why read Boethius today?

Meaning and the good life

Perennial philosophy

Spirituality

Mary-Jane Rubenstein: multiverses, pantheism and ecology

Philosophy of science

Cosmology

Society

Science + religion

Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment

History of ideas

Why the demoniac stayed in his comfortable corner of hell

Philosophy of mind

Buddhism and self-deception

Comparative philosophy

Wittgenstein and religion

How Al-Farabi drew on Plato to argue for censorship in Islam

A funhouse mirror for the soul

Why did the pope phone the philosopher?

Values and beliefs

Christian Zionism

Political philosophy

Religion is about emotion regulation, and it’s very good at it

How a Huguenot philosopher realised that atheists could be virtuous

Virtues and vices

The Buddhist monk who became an apostle for sexual freedom

Sex and sexuality

Is religion a universal in human culture or an academic invention?

Consciousness and altered states

Psychology

Caves all the way down

Neuroscience

What is nirvana?

‘I believe because it is absurd’: Christianity’s first meme

I and Thou

Architecture

Culture

Persistence of vision III

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.
