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Hosted by Matt Rupert · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 30 episodes
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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. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere you listen. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/corals/mountain-pine License code: NT1UAGETRXVL46SM
Matt Rupert hosts American Socrates, a society show with 30 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Can a serious, thinking person believe in God? William James says yes — and has a rigorous philosophical argument for why. Bertrand Russell says the evidence isn't there — and has an equally rigorous arg
Send us Fan Mail In 1896, William Jennings Bryan invoked the crucifixion to defend working people from the gold standard. Today, prosperity gospel preachers invoke Jesus to extract money from working people and live in m
Send us Fan Mail This episode of American Socrates asks what Christianity actually teaches — from the Sermon on the Mount to the Jesus/Paul distinction and poses the question the tradition itself demands: if blessed are
Send us Fan Mail Most Americans already live a Confucian ethics — they just don't know it. If you define yourself by your roles as a parent, child, friend, or worker, if your deepest moral instinct is about loyalty and n
Send us Fan Mail A 2,500-year-old prince walked away from everything — and what he found still cuts to the heart of why modern life feels so hollow. This episode of American Socrates breaks down Buddhist ethics for non-B
Send us Fan Mail After six episodes exploring Aristotle's ethics — eudaimonia, teleology, the golden mean, and the politics of the good life — we turn to the thinker who took that framework and transformed it into the ph
Send us Fan Mail What Does Failure Teach Us? The last segment has been about building something — goals, flourishing, practical wisdom, examined values, and good habits. This episode is about what happens when that isn't
Send us Fan Mail Am I What I Do Repeatedly? Character is not what you intend. It is what you do repeatedly. Aristotle's account of habit formation is one of the most practically actionable ideas in his ethics and one of
Send us Fan Mail What is the Ethics of Politics? Aristotle believed that human beings are political animals, not in the electoral sense, but in the deeper sense that we can only fully develop and flourish within a commun
Send us Fan Mail 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, th
Send us Fan Mail 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 h
Send us Fan Mail 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,
Send us Fan Mail Erich Fromm argued in The Art of Loving that love is a skill — and that most people are bad at it not because they are unloving but because they have never treated it as something that requires practice
Send us Fan Mail How loyal should one be? Loyalty is one of the most emotionally compelling ideas in human life and one of the most philosophically slippery. This episode defines loyalty as a binding commitment that resi
Send us Fan Mail What is Collective Guilt? Can guilt be shared without becoming meaningless? This episode untangles four concepts that keep getting collapsed into one — collective responsibility, liability, complicity, a
Send us Fan Mail 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 in
Send us Fan Mail 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 conditi
Send us Fan Mail 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 differ
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail “Don’t judge” is often treated as the highest moral command, but this episode argues that tolerance has never meant moral silence. Drawing on the classic formulation of the paradox of tolerance by Karl P
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