philosopher rfc philosopher from wiktionary a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy i am going to make the case that we must call stefan molyneux a philosopher without qualifiers in the lead this is not done as an endorsement or statement about the level of achievement or acceptance of his philosophy only that it is his career note not all of the sources i use below are in the article at present the point here is to first convince rfc respondents that philosopher is accurate and widely accepted then we can make sure the most reliable ones are in place definitions obviously each source is going to use slightly different phrasing some will call him explicitly a philosopher or has views on philosophy but i think you should consider some other phrases given below as equivalent using one word philosopher in the lead sentence covers all of his political ethical and theistic specializations in one word which we then elaborate on later in the article philosophical conversation philosophy show used to describe his freedomain radio series libertarian libertarian thinker libertarianism is a classification of political philosophies anarcho capitalist anarcho capitalism is a political philosophy voluntaryist voluntaryism or sometimes voluntarism is a libertarian philosophy athiest arguments for atheism range from the philosophical to social and historical approaches ethics ethics sometimes known as philosophical ethics ethical theory moral theory and moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy secular ethics secular ethics is a branch of moral philosophy primary source as stefan molyneux is a living person we should give great weight to what he says is the focus of his work and his stated profession unless there is reliable evidence to contradict him obviously we don't want to host any sort of fringe claims if we are to dispute what he says about himself though then we absolutely must have a strong basis for this or we open wikipedia to discredit or liability this is why blps are held to strong standards in the first place i think in this case there is strong and ample evidence that calling himself a philosopher is justified and correct he is a modern philosopher that explores via modern online media which is obviously a very new phenomenon and so its understandable that its different than the old school philosophers we're used to freedomain radio about page my master's thesis analyzing the political implications of the philosophies i have been fascinated by philosophy particularly moral theories since my mid teens i left my career as a software entrepreneur and executive to pursue philosophy full time through my work here at freedomain radio i have written a number of novels as well as many free books on philosophy freedomain radio the show that molyneux hosts has the tagline the largest and most popular philosophical conversation in the world molyneux's books show that he is endeavoring to produce tangible written results in the field of philosophy particularly universally preferable behaviour upb a rational proof of secular ethics and against the gods a concise guide to atheism and agnosticism which are two of his more deep dives into the fundamental philosophies strong atheism the case for evacuating the middle ground article why i am a philosopher video a response to questions about my childhood motivations for pursuing philosophy an introduction to philosophy part video course produced by molyneux describing basic philosophical concepts reality knowledge truth gods religion ethics and politics unsolvable philosophical questions solved video tackles great philosophical questions considered unanswerable proofs for god destroyed by a philosophical atheist video a philosophical review discusses the major philosophical political economic and social developments of video '' philosophy questio