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
Am I Kinder Than God?
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Have you ever looked at the suffering of an innocent person — a sick child, someone who never had a chance — and thought: no loving God would allow this? You're not alone. Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov asked the same question in 1880 and has never been answered. This episode of American Socrates walks through the problem of evil and asks what Kierkegaard's leap of faith actually costs, and ends where Dostoevsky ends: not with an argument, but with a gesture.
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