Ageing and death

Psychology

Old not Other

Political philosophy

Thinkers and theories

Philosophy

Democracy entails conflict

Politics and government

Human rights and justice

History of ideas

Beyond dust and grime

History

Society

Cowboy progressives

Scepticism as a way of life

Knowledge

Ethics

Stoics as activists

Values and beliefs

When hope is a hindrance

War and peace

What is ‘the West’?

Nations and empires

The invention of individual responsibility

Democracy is sentimental

In praise of possibility

Economic history

Childhood and adolescence

We’re all teenagers now

Education

How important is white fear?

Demography and migration

Against public philosophy

The patriot paradox

Stories and literature

Culture

Milton versus the mob

Hannah Arendt: What remains?

Vive Madame Roland!

Biography and memoir

Exiles on Main Street

The inflation of concepts

Cities

The harms of gentrification

Plato in Sicily

Who gets to feel secure?

Subcultures

Hate reads

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.


Beauty and aesthetics

Bioethics

Comparative philosophy

Cosmopolitanism

Death

Logic and probability

Meaning and the good life

Metaphysics

Philosophy of language

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of religion

Philosophy of science

Virtues and vices