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Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
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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-...
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Feb 19, 2026 · Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time
Sep 4, 2025 · Listen to the boundless sounds of nature, the great animal orchestra, whose songs imbue the world with fresh meaning
Feb 27, 2026 · Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?
Mar 9, 2026 · Is mathematical beauty real? Or is it just a subjective, human ‘wow’ that is becoming redundant in an AI age?
