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
Can a Rich Man Go to Heaven?
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan invoked the crucifixion to defend working people from the gold standard. Today, prosperity gospel preachers invoke Jesus to extract money from working people and live in mansions. Same religion. Opposite directio...
What Does It Mean to be Christian?
This episode of American Socrates asks what Christianity actually teaches — from the Sermon on the Mount to the Jesus/Paul distinction and poses the question the tradition itself demands: if blessed are the poor is the standard, how much of wha...
What Did Confucius Say?
Most Americans already live a Confucian ethics — they just don't know it. If you define yourself by your roles as a parent, child, friend, or worker, if your deepest moral instinct is about loyalty and not letting people down, Confucius gave th...
Can the Buddha Explain Why Life Is Hard?
A 2,500-year-old prince walked away from everything — and what he found still cuts to the heart of why modern life feels so hollow. This episode of American Socrates breaks down Buddhist ethics for non-Buddhists: the Four Noble Truths, the Eigh...
What Does a 13th-Century Monk Have to Do With the Laws Regulating Abortion?
After six episodes exploring Aristotle's ethics — eudaimonia, teleology, the golden mean, and the politics of the good life — we turn to the thinker who took that framework and transformed it into the philosophical backbone of Western Christian...
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