Sissela Bok

Sissela Bok is a writer and moral philosopher. She is a visiting senior fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Her most recent book is Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science.

Two women console one another one the footsteps of a church.

What Makes Us Better

Two books explore whether morality is innate or learned

By Sissela Bok | Monday June 3, 2019

Lagercrantz’s Art of Reading and Writing

Style of effortless elegance

By Sissela Bok | Monday April 20, 2015

Meeting the Mystics

My California encounters with Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley

By Sissela Bok | Wednesday March 4, 2015

Greater Freedom to Write

By Sissela Bok | Monday March 3, 2014

Cradle to Grave

The games we play and the arguments we have

By Sissela Bok | Friday June 1, 2012

The Nature of Things

An ancient poem’s appeal

By Sissela Bok | Wednesday November 30, 2011

Human Kind

Is selflessness in our nature?

By Sissela Bok | Wednesday September 1, 2010
Two women console one another one the footsteps of a church.

What Makes Us Better

By Sissela Bok | Monday June 3, 2019

Meeting the Mystics

By Sissela Bok | Wednesday March 4, 2015

Greater Freedom to Write

By Sissela Bok | Monday March 3, 2014

Cradle to Grave

By Sissela Bok | Friday June 1, 2012

The Nature of Things

By Sissela Bok | Wednesday November 30, 2011

Human Kind

By Sissela Bok | Wednesday September 1, 2010

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