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Tea With Socrates
A philosophy podcast where every question has a cost. One concept per episode: what it means, where it changed, why it might be wrong, and what it does to how you see your own life.
Episodes
- Tea With Socrates
The Trial of Socrates: Is an examined life actually worth it?
The arc ends where the show's name comes from. Was Socrates a philosophical martyr or have we romanticized the story to inflate our own purpose? If we retcon…
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Self-Deception: Can you really lie to yourself?
Try to lie to yourself. Right now, on purpose. You can’t. To tell a lie you have to know the truth, and to be taken in by one you have to not know it, and…
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Doomscrolling: Which you is you?
This isn’t an episode about your phone. Doomscrolling is just the easiest example to catch yourself. You can want to stop and keep going. But we don’t treat…
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I'm Just Not That Kind of Person
"I'm just not a confrontational person." It sounds like a fact about you. But you said it, just now, at exactly the moment the alternative was hard. Someone at…
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Sour Grapes: How to tell growth from surrender
How to tell growth from surrender. There's a person you used to want to be. At some point you stopped wanting it, and it felt like maturity. How would you know…
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The person you used to want to be.
An excerpt from Episode 1, Sour Grapes. There's a person you used to want to be. At some point you stopped wanting it, and it felt like maturity. Tea With…