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Abyss

The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

The anguish of choice

In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Illegible benefits

The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

The measure of flourishing

Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

The violence specialists

Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?. Aeon audio explores the most profound and relevant ideas, told through essays that help us make sense of ourselves and the world. We ask the big, existentially significant questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, society and culture. Each episode features a narrated Aeon essay, a journey into expert concepts and stories that provoke, enrich and expand our horizons. Aeon is a nonprofit digital magazine publishing essays and videos that seek to illuminate the big questions of life. Free to read and now free to listen, Aeon’s mission is to share knowledge and insight with everyone, everywhere. Discover essays and videos at aeon.co [https://aeon.co?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episodes&utm_campaign=launch]. Aeon essays are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.