Tea With
Socrates

A philosophy podcast where every question has a cost.

Arc One began Tuesday, October 13. New episodes Tuesdays.

A tall dark ceramic mug with a wooden handle, full of tea, on a dark table against a dark green wall.

What it is

Every episode takes one idea in philosophy, one with real consequences, and works it through. What the concept means. The moment in history where it changed. The strongest objection against it. And what it does to how you see your own life, once you can’t unsee it.

No history lectures. No self-help. No answers on the final page. Just a cup, a question, and a host who won’t let a comfortable answer stand.

Arc One is five episodes on why you’re not a reliable witness to your own life. The episodes, with reading, are here.

About

Hello. My name is Cody, and I run a public library in Kentucky. Tea With Socrates is a passion project that carries on the long conversations I had with friends growing up, the kind where one question only fed the next. I never studied philosophy formally. I just kept reading. If you think I’ve got something wrong, or that the objection wins, write to me. I’ll read it.

Arc One · The Unreliable Narrator

  1. TrailerBring a cupSeptember 29
  2. 1Sour Grapes, or: How to Tell Growth From SurrenderOctober 13
  3. 2I’m Just Not That Kind of PersonOctober 13
  4. 3The One Who Wants and the One Who ObjectsOctober 20
  5. 4There Is No VaultOctober 27
  6. 5What It CostNovember 3

The first two episodes arrived together on October 13. One a week after that, on Tuesdays, through November 3.

Listen

One email per episode

What the episode is, one line on why, and the link. New episodes Tuesdays; nothing else, and nothing between arcs.