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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 Make Ethics Practical?
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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 extremes, and that the right response to any situation is neither too much nor too little. This episode unpacks what the mean actually is, why it's not the same as splitting the difference, why the extremes are almost always easier to occupy, and what practical wisdom, Aristotle's master virtue, looks like when it's working. This is Aristotle at his most immediately useful.
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