Virtues and vices

Philosophy

Lies and honest mistakes

Information and communication

Ethics

Cognition and intelligence

Psychology

How to be a genius

Education

Stories and literature

Culture

The living Mahabharata

The ancient world

Personality

Elsewhere

Human rights and justice

Global history

Society

From vice to crime

Nations and empires

Vice dressed as virtue

If all our actions are shaped by luck, are we still agents?

Values and beliefs

Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom

Self-improvement

Meaning and the good life

Psychiatry and psychotherapy

Humility and self-doubt are hallmarks of a good therapist

Knowledge

Modesty means more, not less

Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?

Mistaken

To make laziness work for you, put some effort into it

Work

The fast track to a life well lived is feeling grateful

Social psychology

Righteous incivility

Logic and probability

How ad hominem arguments can demolish appeals to authority

The information arms race can’t be won, but we have to keep fighting

Computing and artificial intelligence

Let’s resolve to own the right to make and break resolutions

History of ideas

Beauty and aesthetics

More than skin deep

If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?

Technology and the self

Imagine there’s no jealousy

Love and friendship

Misbehaving: being clever and wicked is a form of creativity

Political philosophy

Reach out, listen, be patient. Good arguments can stop extremism

Against moral sainthood

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.
