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The latest and most popular Essays from Aeon. Longform articles on philosophy, psychology, science, society, history and the arts, written by the world’s leading thinkers.

Society Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore big ideas from history, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy, archaeology and anthropology, and more.

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 …

Psychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to mental …

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Aug 22, 2025 · This fact challenges our traditional assessment of the nature, structure, operation, function, aim, and end of life. It therefore also challenges, as my Aeon essay argues, the moral …

Aug 21, 2025 · Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything

Nov 4, 2025 · Images of vast ‘canals’ rippling across the red planet inspired fears of alien ‘engineers’ and changed science forever

Feb 17, 2025 · Nothing lasts forever: not humanity, not Earth, not the Universe. But finitude confers an indelible meaning to our lives