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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

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Stefan Basil Molyneux
File:Stefan Molyneux photo.jpgMolyneux in 2014
Born	(1966-09-24) 24 September 1966 (age 58) Athlone, Ireland
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Notable work	Universally Preferable Behaviour, Against the Gods

School	voluntaryism
Main interests	libertarianism, secular ethics, moral universalism, non-aggression principle, strong atheism
Notable ideas	DROs, UPB

Website	freedomainradio.com

Stefan Basil Molyneux (/stɛˈfɑːn ˈmɑːlɪnjuː/; born 24 September 1966) is a Canadian philosopher, author, speaker, and host of Freedomain Radio. Molyneux's areas of focus include libertarian political philosophy, voluntaryism based on the strict application of the non-aggression principle, secular ethics, strong atheism, cryptocurrency (Bitcoin), history, non-violent parenting, and familial relationship issues. He has presented his views on television, radio, and in podcasts and at various public conferences. He is the self-published author of eight non-fiction books, and his essays have been published on popular libertarian websites including LewRockwell.com and antiwar.com. Jeffrey Tucker of the Ludwig von Mises Institute described Molyneux as "one of the single most influential libertarian thinkers of our times".

Biography

Molyneux was born in Ireland, but grew up in England and Africa before settling in Canada.

Although interested in computer programming as a teenager, Molyneux initially pursued acting and playwriting. After attending the Glendon College of York University, where he was a member of Theatre Glendon and the Debating Society, he spent two years at the National Theatre School of Canada graduating in 1990. Molyneux received a B.A. in History from McGill University in 1991 and an M.A. in History from University of Toronto in 1993. According to Molyneux, he focused on the history of philosophy and his thesis analyzed "the political implications of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke".

In early 1995, Stefan and his brother Hugh Molyneux founded Caribou Systems Corporation, which specialized in environmental site management software. He held the position of Chief Technology Officer in the Willowdale, Toronto company until it was sold in 2000.

Molyneux's first fiction book Revolutions, set in late 19th century Russia, was completed in 1991 and published in 2002 by an American publisher after a decade-long search for one in Canada. In 2002, Molyneux graduated from the Humber School for Writers where he completed a fiction book The God Of Atheists. His play Seduction (adapted from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons) appeared on stage in Toronto. His short film, After, has aired on CBC and WTN.

Career

Freedomain Radio

In 2005, Molyneux began a podcast called Freedomain Radio ("FDR"), which became a Top 10 Finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Podcast Awards in the Education category. Shortly after starting the Freedomain Radio podcast, Molyneux opened a website under that name as a place to distribute his self-published books, host podcast archives, and act as a community for FDR listeners. Molyneux now releases most new FDR content via his YouTube channel, which as of January 2014 had over 130,000 subscribers and 25 million channel views, contributing to the show's tagline - "The Largest and Most Popular Philosophical Conversation in the World". Audio versions of new FDR content continue to be published also in podcast form. Molyneux eschews typical advertising methods to fund the show, instead preferring the immediate feedback he gets from direct listener donations, a choice that he believes inspires him to produce high quality content.

On the Freedomain Radio show, Molyneux has interviewed and debated several notable guests, including Noam Chomsky, anarcho-libertarian theorist Walter Block, Zeitgeist founder Peter Joseph, psychological development and addition specialist Dr. Gabor Maté, developmental psychologist Dr. Alison Gopnik, child psychologist Dr. Peter Gray, Socratic journalist Jan Helfeld, Harvard economics professor and Cato Institute fellow Jeffrey Miron, and Divorce Corp director Joseph Sorge. FDR also includes single topic videos, such as movie reviews from his philosophical viewpoint, and a weekly call-in show where listeners can ask philosophy questions or discuss personal issues. These call-in shows have occasionally been guest-hosted by former guests men's movement activist Dr. Warren Farrell and unschooling advocate Dayna Martin.

Public appearances

Molyneux is a frequent guest speaker at libertarian conferences and events. He delivered a keynote at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in March 2009, where he presented his "Against Me" argument – a method of conducting a political debates by inviting opponents to admit that they advocate for direct initiation of force. He's spoken at Liberty Fest NYC in 2011, FreedomFest in Las Vegas in 2012, and PorcFest 2013 in Lancaster, NH. He has attended the Libertopia festival held in San Diego each year since 2010, and acted as master of ceremonies twice. Molyneux was emcee of LibertyFest West held in Odessa, TX on February 11, 2012.

Molyneux has appeared on television, radio, and other podcasts to discuss his viewpoints and popular videos. He has been a commentator on RT television programs Adam vs The Man, The Keiser Report, and Breaking the Set. He's been interviewed by ReasonTV and The Alex Jones Show. Molyneux has been a frequent guest host of the Peter Schiff Show since 2012, and has been both a guest and guest host of The Corbett Report. He has appeared twice as a featured guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

In 2014, Molyneux debated drug legalization at Upper Canada College's World Affairs Conference. He also began a series of appearances advocating the use of Bitcoin for political change. He spoke at the Texas Bitcoin Conference, the Bitcoin Expo 2014 in Toronto, and The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. He appeared at the International Conference on Men’s Issues June 2014 in Detroit.

Philosophical views

Dispute resolution organizations

Molyneux's 2005 essay The Stateless Society: An Examination of Alternatives, published by the libertarian website LewRockwell.com, introduced his concept of dispute resolution organizations ("DROs") which combine some of the qualities of insurance companies, credit agencies, and personal defense. These DRO's would operate under a system of anarcho-capitalism (a type of libertarian anarchism), in which government is no longer justified due to its nature being a violation of the non-aggression principle ("NAP"). In such a stateless society, DROs would be hired on a voluntary basis to provide protection to individuals and resolve disputes on their behalf as a replacement for the services previously provided by governments. He explored this idea further in his book Practical Anarchy.

Universally Preferable Behaviour

In his 2007 book Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof for Secular Ethics, Molyneux describes his approach for evaluating the validity of moral theories using logic and empiricism, comparing it to the use of the scientific method to prove physical theories. He proposes that if any moral statement lacks internal consistency by having flawed or self-contradictory structure, or if it can be shown to conflict with the rules of logic, it can be dismissed without further examination. The moral statement is then investigated for external consistency, by confirming that it adheres to observable evidence and arrives at the correct result for cases generally accepted as immoral, such as rape, murder, and theft. "Universally preferable behaviours", then, are the actions of people that comply with the universal moral statements that are objectively derived in this process and should be considered binding among people.

In 2011, Molyneux was invited by Students for Liberty to give a webinar on Universally Preferable Behaviour, and took questions and feedback from the audience.

In 2012, libertarian philosopher David Gordon gave a critical examination of the book in The Mises Review, stating, "is arguments are often preposterously bad". Gordon documented what he sees as fundamental flaws in philosophical reasoning, though he did praise Molyneux's insights into external verification, agreeing that "f a theory cannot show that a rule that purported to make obligatory is ill-formed, the theory should be rejected." Molyneux and Gordon later exchanged responses to the points raised in the review but could not come to agreement on some major issues, particularly that of universality.

Parent-child relationships

Molyneux is morally and ethically opposed to many forms of child discipline, including corporal punishment (spanking), time-outs, grounding, and verbal abuse. In his view, children share the same universal natural right as adults have to be free from violence, and so the use of coercive force against them is a violation of the non-aggression principle. He advocates "peaceful parenting", which replaces discipline with preparation and reasoning.

In articles, blog posts, and his books On Truth and Real-Time Relationships, Moylneux explored his view that relationships between all individuals should be entirely voluntary, and that this also extends to familial relationships. He maintains that adult children whose parents or other birth family relations were abusive or neglectful should exercise their right to disassociate with them if they no longer feel affection or desire contact. To distinguish between family relationships chosen as adults (such as spousal relationships) and the family that people are born into, Molyneux refers to the childhood family as the "FOO", an acronym of "family of origin" (borrowed from academic psychology).

In 2008, the parents of an 18-year-old Freedomain Radio ("FDR") community member took complaints about these views to several media outlets, claiming that Molyneux s the leader of a "therapy cult", after their son abruptly broke off all contact with the family ("deFOOed"). The son called-in to FDR in the weeks prior to ask about his veganism and his intense disgust towards people that eat meat or are cruel to animals. Molyneux quickly suggested that the source of this disgust was that son had grown up around someone in authority that was cruel to animals. The son confirmed this, describing memories of his father being verbally and physically cruel to the family cat, causing him to feel intimidated by the father, and then described his emotional detachment toward his mother and the rest of his family. The following month, the son left a note stating he no longer wanted contact and left home. A representative of the Cult Information Centre described the situation as "a worrying development", noting that cults often cut people off from their families. Molyneux provided evidence to the media that, of the 50,000 regular listeners, only about 20 FDR members had "deFOOed". Molyneux added: "If I advised a wife to leave an abusive husband, there would not be articles about how I am a cult leader."

Athiesm

Molyneux advocates for strong atheism, maintaining that the non-existence of deities can be proven through the application of reason, logic, and empiricism. He expresses one attack on the concept of deities by drawing upon the analogy of a "square circle":

A square circle is an impossible entity, and therefore cannot exist. We do not have to hunt the entire universe from edge to edge to know that a square circle does not exist; it is not an act of will to accept that a square circle does not exist, it is simply a recognition of reality and the nature of existence.
Take any property or ethic of the Christian God – to just pick on one absurd anti-concept – and the contradictory nature is clear.

"That which exists must have been created, but God, who exists, was never created."

"God is all-knowing and all-powerful, which are both impossible."

"God punishes a man for actions which are predetermined."

"God punishes rebellious angels, although their rebellion was completely predetermined."

"God claims to be morally perfect, although God fails the test of most of his 10 Commandments."

Stefan Molyneux, Against the Gods, page 39

Philosophy instructor and atheism author Peter Boghossian wrote the foreword to Against the Gods. In it, he expressed his disappointment with modern academic philosophy's "limited expression, hampered inquiry, and an emphasis on issues that matter to almost nobody except the very, very few philosophers who study them". He praised Molyneux for going against this trend by providing arguments that are accessible and convincing to the masses: "Against the Gods is an outsider's philosophy book, uncharacteristic in its forthright nature and bold in its lack of pretension".

Bibliography

Non-fiction

On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion (2007)
Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics (2007)
Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love (2008)
Everyday Anarchy: The Freedom of Now (2008)
Practical Anarchy: The Freedom of the Future (2008)
How (NOT) to Achieve Freedom (2008)
Against the Gods? A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism (2010) (Foreword by Peter Boghossian)
The Handbook of Human Ownership: A Manual for New Tax Farmers (2011)

Fiction

Revolutions (PublishAmerica, 2002) ISBN 978-1591294634 OCLC 671025010
The God of Atheists (2007)
Seduction – a play adapted from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

See also

Nock, Albert Jay (1935). Our Enemy, the State. Laissez Faire Books (published 2012). ISBN 978-1-62129-025-4. (Foreword by Stefan Molyneux)

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Powell, Robin (December 29, 2008). "Website Led Teen To Quit Family". SkyNews. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
Molyneux, Stefan (February 20, 2007). "Strong Atheism: The Case for Evacuating the Middle Ground". Strike The Root. Retrieved May 15, 2014.

External links

Official website – Freedomain Radio
Columns by Stefan Molyneux on Strike The Root
Articles by Stefan Molyneux on LewRockwell.com

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Schools	Buddhist Christian Confucian Epicurean Existentialist Feminist Islamic Jewish Kantian Rousseauian Stoic Tao
Concepts	Authority Autonomy Common sense Compassion Conscience Consent Culture of life Dignity Double standard Duty Equality Etiquette Eudaimonia Family values Fidelity Free will Good and evil Good Evil Problem of evil Happiness Honour Ideal Immorality Justice Liberty Loyalty Moral agency Moral courage Moral hierarchy Moral imperative Morality Norm Pacifism Political freedom Precept Rights Self-discipline Suffering Stewardship Sympathy Theodicy Torture Trust Value Intrinsic Japan Western Vice Virtue Vow Wrong
Ethicists	Laozi Socrates Plato Aristotle Diogenes Valluvar Cicero Confucius Augustine Mencius Mozi Xunzi Aquinas Spinoza Butler Hume Smith Kant Hegel Schopenhauer Bentham Mill Kierkegaard Sidgwick Nietzsche Moore Barth Tillich Bonhoeffer Foot Rawls Dewey Williams Mackie Anscombe Frankena MacIntyre Hare Singer Parfit Nagel Adams Taylor Azurmendi Korsgaard Nussbaum
Works	Nicomachean Ethics (c. 322 BC) Ethics (Spinoza) (1677) Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726) A Treatise of Human Nature (1740) The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1780) Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) Critique of Practical Reason (1788) Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820) Either/Or (1843) Utilitarianism (1861) The Methods of Ethics (1874) On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) Principia Ethica (1903) A Theory of Justice (1971) Practical Ethics (1979) After Virtue (1981) Reasons and Persons (1984)
Related	Axiology Casuistry Descriptive ethics Ethics in religion Evolutionary ethics History of ethics Human rights Ideology Moral psychology Philosophy of law Political philosophy Population ethics Rehabilitation Secular ethics Social philosophy Index
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