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Rigorous philosophical essays by sixth-form students across the UK.

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What Consolations does Philosophy Offer?

Explores the consolations that philosophy can/cannot offer us through the views of Boethius, as well as themes such as Death, Existentialism and Stoicism.

Eddy Thom

Eton College

Epistemology

Does Philosophy Have Authority Over Faith?

“Does Philosophy Have Authority Over Faith? “What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? When the early Church writer Tertullian posed this question in De praesciptione haereticorum, it appeared as more than a declaration of hostility between two rivalling authorities. “At…

Nathan Wong

Eton College

Epistemology

To what extent is the knowledge of God possible?

The question of whether, and specifically to what extent, knowledge of God is possible lies at the intersection of epistemology and philosophical theology – questioning the metaphysics of divine reality and its criteria for justified belief within human cognition.

Victor Guan

Eton College

Aesthetics

Cosmic Harmony and Moral Character: Music, Philosophy and the Soul in Al-Kindi and Al-Farabi

This article is about the link between music, philosophy, and how it can shape moral character. It emphasizes the importance of aesthetics within religion (specifically Islam in this context).

Musa Abd Halim

Eton College

Epistemology

Plato's Cave and the Social Media Condition

Two and a half millennia before the algorithm, Plato described a group of people who mistook shadows for reality and punished the one among them who escaped into the light. The resemblance to contemporary digital life is not coincidental — it is philosophically precise.

Amara Osei

King Edward VI College, Birmingham

Political Philosophy

Liberty and Its Limits: A Millian Analysis of the 'Cancel Culture' Debate

John Stuart Mill's harm principle was designed to protect the individual from the 'tyranny of prevailing opinion'. Over 160 years later, his framework remains the most powerful — and most misunderstood — tool for navigating contemporary debates about speech and social sanction.

Sophie Chen

Westminster School, London

Ethics

The Trolley Problem Revisited: Moral Intuition in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles

As self-driving cars move from thought experiment to city street, the philosophical puzzles of the twentieth century have become urgent engineering questions. What can Philippa Foot and Judith Jarvis Thomson teach Silicon Valley?

James Harrison

St Paul's School, London