Welcome to today's interview here on brighton.com and I am just really honored and pleased to bring back, I think, one of the most important voices of our time. He is a philosopher, a teacher, just an incredibly inspiring figure. And he has been, he's sort of disengaged from large parts of the internet for a number of years and he's back it's

Stefan Molinu and he joins us right now his website is freedomain.com and there you go, free domain

just like it sounds.com. Welcome Stefan or Stefan, excuse me. Everybody pronounces your name

differently. Welcome to the show. It's great to have you on.

Thanks. It's great to be here. We haven't chatted in a while. It's been a number of years, and honestly, I've missed your voice. I've, I've been a big fan of your work for a long time. And then I saw a video of you recently talking about how you are focused on, what do you call it, peaceful parenting? And so you're not beating the kids? Is that where that begins? Well, not my own, obviously, because they can fight back.

Yeah, so I took some of time in the hiatus. I wrote three books. And one of the books I wrote was

called Peaceful Parenting, which is the application of sort of the libertarian values of the non-aggression principle, respect

for persons and property, applied to parenting because one of the things that's kind

of troubled me in the history of philosophy and I created a narrated a 22-part history

of philosopher series on my site, is that philosophers don't really

talk about parenting. Oh, the abstract questions of metaphysics and epistemology, oh, politics,

oh, relationships between the sexes and so on. But they don't go to the core furnace of the human

experience, what shapes us in irrevocable ways, which is

parenting. Einran didn't talk about it. Plato barely touched on it. Aristotle really not

at all. The church fathers did, but really from a mere biblical, not purely philosophical perspective.

And I've just always had the idea or the goal that philosophy should be actionable in your life.

Now, I don't like the Federal Reserve, but there's really not much I can do about it except maybe pee on their building at 2 o'clock in the morning and risk arrest.

However, when it comes to the most widespread violation of the non-aggression principle that we can do the most about, well, that would be

parenting. And I've been to stay-at-home dad. My daughter turns 17 this year. So we're almost

done, at least for the time being, until grandparents stuff slides into the interview. And it works

beautifully. Of course, I have a lot of friends who are peaceful parents and, you know, sibling

conflicts are virtually non-existent and everyone gets along really famously and there's not a lot of

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