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 Thrive?
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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 eudaimonia is the contemplative life sounds, at first, like something only a philosopher would say. This episode makes the case that he's right and that the evidence is hiding in plain sight. We find critical thinking to be very satisfying. Aristotle understood this, and why winning at life by cheating hollows the whole thing out.
Art: Albert Bierstadt, "Sequoia", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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