History of ideas

Philosophy

The invention of individual responsibility

Values and beliefs

Political philosophy

Democracy is sentimental

Ethics

Thinkers and theories

In praise of possibility

Economic history

Childhood and adolescence

Psychology

We’re all teenagers now

Education

How important is white fear?

Demography and migration

Politics and government

Against public philosophy

Knowledge

Nations and empires

Society

The patriot paradox

Stories and literature

Culture

Milton versus the mob

Hannah Arendt: What remains?

History

Vive Madame Roland!

Biography and memoir

Exiles on Main Street

Human rights and justice

The inflation of concepts

Cities

The harms of gentrification

Plato in Sicily

Who gets to feel secure?

Subcultures

Hate reads

Where loneliness can lead

Gender

Mary Beard: women in power

The ancient world

Philosophy’s systemic racism

Race and ethnicity

Mood and emotion

Politics is visceral

Neuroscience

On tact in dark times

Work

Universal unions

Economics

Poverty and development

The billionaire curse

Lawyer for the strongman

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.
