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
What does Forgiveness Bring Us?
What does forgiveness actually do to the people who practice it — and what does real transformation look like when it happens? In this episode, we move past the question of why forgiveness is hard and into the territory of what it produc...
What is the Silver Rule?
Is Fairness Enough? Tit-for-tat is mathematically elegant and emotionally satisfying: you get what you give, and nobody gets taken advantage of. Game theory even proves it works — under the right conditions. This episode examines what th...
What is the Golden Rule?
Isn't Morality Just the Golden Rule? Most people think the Golden Rule is about fairness — treat others the way you want to be treated. But fairness and forgiveness are not the same thing, and the difference matters. This episode explore...
Do I Owe Anything to the Future?
What do we owe people who do not yet exist? This episode begins with the “seventh generation” principle of the Iroquois Confederacy—evaluating decisions by their impact 150 years into the future—and asks why that standard feels so alien in a wo...
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