Ethics

Philosophy

Forget morality

Thinkers and theories

Virtues and vices

The ancient world

Society

Plato’s Atlantis

Values and beliefs

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

Gender

History of ideas

Ideas that work

Metaphysics

On the necessity of obedience

Human rights and justice

Philosophy’s lack of progress

Knowledge

What Renaissance?

History

Political philosophy

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?

Vive Madame Roland!

Biography and memoir

Final thoughts

Death

A brief history of melancholy

Mood and emotion

Philosophers and other animals

Animals and humans

War and peace

Reading John Gray in war

The abuses of Popper

History of science

Economics

Pause. Reflect. Think

Education

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.
