American Socrates
Think Deeper. Live Better.
Most podcasts give you answers. American Socrates gives you better questions.
Host Matt Rupert — Professional Philosopher, Part-time Podcaster — applies the lost art of Socratic thinking to the decisions, relationships, and cultural debates shaping everyday American life. This is not a philosophy class. It's not another self-help podcast. Just rigorous, honest thinking that helps you sift through the rhetoric and live more deliberately.
New episodes every Wednesday. Check your assumptions at the door.
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American Socrates
Latest Episodes
How Do I Make Ethics Practical?
How are you supposed to act when you’re not sure what to do? Every ethical system eventually has to answer this same practical question. Aristotle's answer is the doctrine of the golden mean, that is, the idea that virtue lies between ex...
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How Do I Thrive?
How do you live your best life? Aristotle's answer to the question of what human life is for is eudaimonia, usually translated as happiness, but closer in meaning to flourishing. His argument that the highest form of eudaimo...
How Do I Find Purpose in Life?
Before you can get good at living, you need to know what you're living for. Aristotle's concept of teleology, the idea that everything has a purpose, and that purpose determines what success looks like, turns out to be one of the most practical...
What is Love?
Erich Fromm argued in The Art of Loving that love is a skill — and that most people are bad at it not because they are unloving but because they have never treated it as something that requires practice and develop...
What are the Ethics of Loyalty?
How loyal should one be? Loyalty is one of the most emotionally compelling ideas in human life and one of the most philosophically slippery. This episode defines loyalty as a binding commitment that resists constant recalculation — which...
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