Thinkers and theories

Philosophy

Against longtermism

The future

Values and beliefs

When hope is a hindrance

Political philosophy

War and peace

Germany’s Wollstonecraft

History of ideas

Gender

Small is beautiful: impressions of Fritz Schumacher

Economics

History of technology

The view from her

Gender and identity

Democracy is sentimental

Ethics

In praise of possibility

Economic history

Forget morality

Virtues and vices

The ancient world

Society

Plato’s Atlantis

Meaning and the good life

Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions

Stories and literature

A just and loving gaze

Philosophy of religion

Mental health

Psychology

World wide open

Psychiatry and psychotherapy

Mathematics

Science

How an infinite hotel ran out of room

Logic and probability

Anthropology

The Margaret Mead problem

Ideas that work

Metaphysics

On the necessity of obedience

Human rights and justice

Philosophy’s lack of progress

Knowledge

What Renaissance?

History

Against public philosophy

Authenticity is a sham

Self-improvement

Culture

Milton versus the mob

Coleridge the philosopher

Gardening with Nietzsche

Wellbeing

Hannah Arendt: What remains?

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.
