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The worldly turn

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This paradoxical life

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George Sand’s boots

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Why philosophy needs myth

The ancient world

Hegel today

Metaphysics

Philosophy of language

Against longtermism

The future

Values and beliefs

When hope is a hindrance

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War and peace

Germany’s Wollstonecraft

Gender

Small is beautiful: impressions of Fritz Schumacher

History of technology

The view from her

Democracy is sentimental

Ethics

In praise of possibility

Forget morality

Virtues and vices

Plato’s Atlantis

Meaning and the good life

Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions

A just and loving gaze

Philosophy of religion

Mathematics

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How an infinite hotel ran out of room

Anthropology

The Margaret Mead problem

Ideas that work

On the necessity of obedience

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Philosophy’s lack of progress

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What Renaissance?

History

Against public philosophy

Authenticity is a sham

Self-improvement

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.
