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
How Do I Find Purpose in Life?
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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 practically useful ideas in ethical philosophy. This episode explores what it means to have a telos, why most people are pursuing goals they never consciously chose, and why skills without direction are just circular motion. If you can't define what you're headed towards, you have no reliable way to know whether you’ll succeed or fail at the things that matter most to you.
Art: Andrew Wyeth's "Winter 1946"
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