The Dan Norton Show

Whick's YouTube channel: @Whick-TV 0:00 Intro 2:30 Doing good vs. feeling good, short-run vs. long-run thinking 5:56 Does short-range thinking or being a rude jerk pay off? 10:42 What is the standard of good and bad? Pleasure and pain 18:28 Trump, optionality, limits to a good life, assessing someone’s (lack of) happiness 22:52 Metrics of success 25:34 Christian ethics, “love your enemy,” foreign...

I was interviewed by Boris Reitman of Radio VERA TV (a Russian-language outlet) about a range of topics. More details: 0:00 Intro by Boris Reitman 3:50 Dan joins the call 4:32 The state of the world 6:02 Is technology/social media a net benefit? 11:58 My debates, including with Sam Seder of The Majority Report 15:03 Do I recommend my approach to others? 17:58 Rudeness, anonymity, and blocking 23:0...

Cam's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-politics-with-cam/id1774784856 0:00 Intro 1:38 Ayn Rand’s capitalism: no taxes or regulations (Dan) 3:40 How is government funded without taxes? (Cam, Dan) 9:44 Objections/questions (Cam) 12:05 What if people don’t choose to fund the government voluntarily? (Dan) 15:06 Objections (Cam) 18:43 Replies: Ostracism/boycotting and coercion (Dan)...

The Dan Norton Show #20 0:00 Teaser clips 1:34 Intro to the discussion and to Austin Wood 8:48 What is faith? (Austin) 11:50 What is faith? (Dan): Belief without evidence 13:53 Testimony and degrees of evidence/belief: Is there a BYU campus in Idaho? 35:54 Atheism, agnosticism, and evidence 46:24 Mysticism and faith 53:38 Is there evidence Jesus walked on water? 1:01:33 Does the number of people w...

The Dan Norton Show #19 0:00 Intro 3:09 Mark Brombacher’s transition from Objectivism/libertarianism to faith and the “supernatural” 10:27 What is faith? Belief without evidence 15:37 The evidential continuum (murder example): arbitrary, possible, probable, certain 19:37 Reason as insufficient for belief in God—faith required 24:38 Faith as putting emotions above reason 26:32 “Supernatural”/“paran...

Here's the video I mention at the start of the call: "Did Sam Seder smear Ayn Rand as hypocritical for taking Social Security—and then change his mind?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCFM_hBt2WA Here's the Twitter/X thread I mention at the start of the call: https://twitter.com/dannorton111/status/1836077611124187288 "The Question of Scholarships," by Ayn Rand: https://courses.aynrand.org/works/...

For more on Ayn Rand's view of receiving government assistance, see her essay, "The Question of Scholarships": https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-question-of-scholarships/ Other resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyB11kObzbE "The Myth about Ayn Rand and Social Security," by Onkar Ghate: https://newideal.aynrand.org/what-gave-ayn-rand-the-moral-right-to-collect-social-security/ Full vide...

Liam's TikTok: ProphetDivinityy Liam's YouTube: @ProphetDivinityy 0:00 Intro to Liam 1:36 Topics to cover 3:21 Hedonism and Objectivism 9:41 Ayn Rand passage on life, happiness, and hedonism 12:52 Plants and values 19:29 The fundamental choice, pleasure, and reasons to live 28:26 The Experience Machine 36:08 The immortal robot 37:18 Happiness and other types of pleasure 43:12 The immortal robot (P...

Further discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VOzKYDDkow https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7TkHIE42-Y #america #immigrants #freedom #unitedstates #immigration #illegal #legal #law #aynrand #objectivism #rights

In this video I explain some basic laws of reality, the Laws of Identity and Noncontradiction, and raise some questions about how transgender people relate to those laws. #transgender #aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #axiom #identity #lnc #contradiction #reality #aisa #existence #consistency #logic

Next video in this series: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyyx6zEXD00 All videos in this series: Part 1 (this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tl0noYXcvU Part 2: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyyx6zEXD00 Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMbGGomNNc Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3V7H7apvKM Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTPusgIjgQ The entire five-part seri...

Next video in this series: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMbGGomNNc All videos in this series: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tl0noYXcvU Part 2 (this video): ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyyx6zEXD00 Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMbGGomNNc Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3V7H7apvKM Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTPusgIjgQ The entire five-part seri...

Next video in this series: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3V7H7apvKM All videos in this series: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tl0noYXcvU Part 2: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyyx6zEXD00 Part 3 (this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMbGGomNNc Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3V7H7apvKM Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTPusgIjgQ The entire five-part seri...

Next video in this series: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTPusgIjgQ All videos in this series: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tl0noYXcvU Part 2: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyyx6zEXD00 Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMbGGomNNc Part 4 (this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3V7H7apvKM Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTPusgIjgQ The entire five-part seri...

This is the last video in a five-part series about capitalism. All videos in this series: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tl0noYXcvU Part 2: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyyx6zEXD00 Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMbGGomNNc Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3V7H7apvKM Part 5 (this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTPusgIjgQ The entire five-part series in a si...

In this video, I interview Dr. Bach Ho, an Objectivist philosophy Ph. D., about Organic Intelligence®, “an approach to healing and growth developed by Steven Hoskinson.” Bach's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DrBachHo 0:00 Introduction 0:46 What is Organic Intelligence®? 3:42 Organic Intelligence® and Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism 15:54 Organic Intelligence®, capacity, and intensity (furt...

"A Defense of Egoism," with Dr. Bach Ho - The Dan Norton Show #16 by Dan Norton

This is my sixth call to The Majority Report with Sam Seder, a leftist show with about 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube. Here are links to all of my calls, plus a discussion about my calls with a particular focus on ridicule: 1st call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtYpBQ-hO4w 2nd call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8suOdCLz00 3rd call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0tzuhYubew Ridicule:...

Today’s social system in the United States and in other Western countries is often called “capitalism.” But this is a mistake, according to novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. In this video, I present Rand's view of what capitalism actually is. 0:00 Introduction 1:33 Capitalism's basic principle 3:06 The proper role of government: police, military, courts 4:34 Some implications of no taxes and no regul...

Full clip of my 3rd call to The David Pakman Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZGrs7XIoOY On February 28, 2024, I made my third call to the largest show I've ever been on, The David Pakman Show, which currently has 2.1 million subscribers on YouTube. Check it out at the link above. Pointer video for my 1st call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwwsYOkU818 (includes a link to the full call) Po...

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDeA4Tfhhjk https://www.patreon.com/DanNorton #values #ethics #metaethics #descriptive #normative #arbitrary #objectivism #hume #value #selfinterest #aynrand #morality #fact #facts

The full video from which this discussion is excerpted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttPM_pDtzOo. 0:00 Does putting your own oxygen mask on first exemplify rational self-interest? 6:00 Lifeboat example 8:44 Back to the oxygen mask case 21:26 Morality and practicality 24:41 Back to the oxygen mask case (again) Thumbnail photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash. #oxygenmask #selfinterest #altruism #ayn...

Intro 0:00 Ethics 1:21 Does putting your own oxygen mask on first exemplify rational self-interest? 7:20 Lifeboat example 10:05 Back to the oxygen mask case 22:47 Morality and practicality 26:02 Back to the oxygen mask case (again) Metaethics 31:29 How do you justify that you should do what best serves you? 37:16 The primary choice (subsection) Metaphysics 45:17 Analogizing the primary choice to G...

This is my fifth call to The Majority Report with Sam Seder, a leftist show with over a million subscribers on YouTube. Links to all of my calls, plus a discussion about my calls with a particular focus on ridicule: 1st call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtYpBQ-hO4w 2nd call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8suOdCLz00 3rd call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0tzuhYubew Ridicule: https://www....

My complete fourth call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheHlEjlwdI&t=8516s. (The link should take you directly to the spot in the full show on The Majority Report's channel where my call starts, i.e., 2 hours, 21 minutes, and 56 seconds. The relevant segment is 9.5 minutes with about a one-minute interruption during which Emma reads unrelated comments from show supporters.) 0:00 Clip of the begi...