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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 155 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I explore the complexities of human relationships, focusing on love and societal influences on our interactions. I discuss the challenges of sustaining friendships and romantic partnerships amid changing life stages, emphasizing the evolution of these bonds over time. Through personal anecdotes, I highlight how parenting reshapes identities and illuminates the selfless nature of love. I also stress the importance of authenticity and critical evaluation in relationships, warning against idealizing partners as portrayed in media. Engaging with a caller, we unpack how early attachment styles shape relationship patterns. This episode offers insights on fostering healthier connections by embracing self-awareness and understanding the dynamics of modern love.
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| 0:00.0 | I would really, really appreciate that, help support the cost of what it is I'm doing |
| 0:04.9 | and help spread philosophy to the world. |
| 0:07.5 | FreeDemain.com slash donate. |
| 0:08.7 | All right. |
| 0:10.4 | Enough pitch. |
| 0:12.1 | Let's get to your topics. |
| 0:14.6 | I, of course, have a topic, refined, granulated, separated, cut with a credit card into sniffable lines all ready to go, |
| 0:24.7 | but, of course, I love hearing from you guys. |
| 0:29.6 | Philosophy is in its best state of conversation. |
| 0:32.6 | That's really what I love about what it is that I do, is that philosophy was originally a conversation. |
| 0:37.4 | As you know, |
| 0:38.0 | Socrates, basic founder of modern philosophy, didn't write things down. We only know what he was |
| 0:44.3 | supposed to have said through Plato, who I believe is not the most reliable witness as a whole, |
| 0:50.0 | but it's a conversation. And it is in the conversation that we get to the truth. Truth is not a |
| 0:56.8 | solitary occupation. Truth requires us to steer at it from different angles, to refine, to whittle, |
| 1:05.0 | to turn, to plane, to spin, to bring all the power tools of reason and evidence to bear to carve out |
| 1:12.9 | the beautiful shape of the truth. |
| 1:14.7 | And I really appreciate everyone's participation in this conversation. |
| 1:20.7 | I mean, what I've been thinking about today is friendship. |
| 1:24.4 | Because there's something, I remember this in the show Friends, |
| 1:28.3 | and I talked about this on my show many years ago, |
| 1:32.0 | just how Rachel, the character Rachel, had a baby, |
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