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Mark Pellegrino and Michael Liebowitz discuss how Michael transformed his life with philosophy.
00:00:00 Mark Pellegrino and Michael Liebowitz
00:01:20 How did Michael Liebowitz end up spending 25 years in prison?
00:01:50 Growing up in Connecticut
00:04:45 Inside the Criminal Mind by Dr Samenow
00:08:28 Mark Pellegrino's difficult upbringing
00:11:30 Good influences in Michael's life
00:17:54 What you are versus what you want to be
00:20:00 Making yourself a moral agent
00:23:00 You can't allow a criminal one lie
00:26:26 The honesty and integrity of Rand's heroes is accessible
00:32:50 Fear of abandonment and suicide
00:38:47 It takes courage to be rational
00:44:41 Values and emotions
00:49:18 Jiu-Jitsu as physical self talk
00:51:54 Are people born evil?
01:01:30 How do you process attacks on social media
01:14:50 Getting stuck reading Ayn Rand and holding back opinions
01:22:15 Smart people and having purpose
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Mark Pellegrino and Gena Gorlin discuss the intersection of philosophy and psychology.
00:00:00 Mark Pellegrino and Gena Gorlin
00:00:30 A promiscuous therapeutic life
00:00:50 Dr Gena Gorlin
00:02:00 Is there a difference between philosophy and psychology?
00:05:50 A historically rooted dichotomy within the field
00:11:05 Drama of the Gifted Child
00:18:00 Trauma is a trend in Silicon Valley
00:25:29 Is your neurosis your art?
00:32:20 Are objectivists in touch with their feelings?
00:37:30 How do you deal with narcissists on social media?
00:44:20 Aspiration and deontological ethics
00:55:20 Paradoxical intention, phobias and fears
00:56:00 Q&A Trauma and identity
01:03:00 What do you do when it feels like it won't ever get better?
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There's an almost universal claim that Israel's retaliatory response to the attack on October 7th must be proportionate. Is that true? When did morality become a numbers game? How SHOULD Israel respond? In this video, Mark Pellegrino explores the moral response to violence and why there can only be one goal.
00:00 Should Israel's response be proportionate?
00:23 Is a proportional response moral?
00:48 Who occupied the moral high ground in WW2?
01:15 Altruism — the impossible moral dilemma
01:47 The altruistic standard behind calls for Israel's defeat in Gaza
02:30 Outcasts among Arab nations
02:56 Altruists abuse the defenders
03:11 Why altruists say Israel must never fully exert its strength
03:39 War is the breakdown of civilisation
04:38 Should Palestine surrender?
05:11 The response to violence can only have one goal
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When you start a war with someone, you’ve declared to the world that persuasion, reason,
civility, and rights, can no longer settle your differences… that means you have essentially
forfeited the defining characteristics of civilization for violence. That’s a hard truth for a college
kid wrapped in privilege, figuring out where his intersection on the oppression hierarchy is while
sipping his double mocha frap at Starbucks to grasp… 'why can’t war be friendly?' he says to no
one in particular as he wraps himself in the Palestinian flag to chant ‘from the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free.’
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What is THE question at the base of the conflict in Israel? Mark Pellegrino discusses the principle of legitimate statehood and why this means Israel is the only state in the Middle East entitled to defend itself.
00:00 What gives Israel the Right?
00:13 A brief history of Israel since 1948
01:05 Almost everyone fails to use principles
01:17 The principle of legitimate statehood
01:35 What is the definition of a state?
02:06 What makes a state legitimate?
02:22 The history of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank
02:55 The Enlightenment redefined legitimacy
03:39 Rights determine legitimacy
03:55 How does Israel compare to Gaza and the West Bank?
04:56 The rejection of every western moral norm
05:22 Israel is the only legitimate state in the Middle East
05:48 To the Palestinian people
From The Enlightenment on, any state that did not abide by the social moral principle of rights — which constrained the power of the state so that men could be free to act in their own interests — was not legitimate. The logic being that no state could claim a ‘right’ to exist that did not also respect the rights of its own citizens.That means that in the present, Rights determine legitimacy. And so it follows that the legitimacy of a state should be measured by the degree to which it fulfils this moral ideal.
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What's the fundamental condition for peaceful coexistence and thriving? Which country in the Middle East deserves your support? Mark Pellegrino looks to philosophical principles to determine whose position in the war in Israel is just.
00:00 Should you stand with Israel?
00:25 Liberty is the fuel that makes human industry and productivity possible
00:42 What is the path to peace in the Middle East?
01:06 Israel vs Hamas today is a war for tolerance and human progress
01:20 Tribalism and the Hamas attack on Israel
01:33 Is the war in Israel just?
Stand with the only democratic state in the Middle East. Have the courage to stand against the rising tide of tribal hatred and intolerance and fight for the gift of liberty. Nothing less than your future depends on it.
Mark Pellegrino is a successful actor who appeared in Lost, Supernatural, Being Human, 13 Reasons Why, American Rust, The Closer, The Tomorrow People, Dexter, The Big Lebowski, Mulholland Drive, Capote and more. Mark teaches at Playhouse Paris, the acting school he and his wife founded in Paris. He is also a co-founder of the American Capitalist Party and a graduate of the Objectivist Academic Center. Mark Pellegrino stands with Israel.
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Should free movement be a right? Is America still the land of immigrants? Why is immigration such a hot topic? Check out this video from Mark Pellegrino and share your thoughts in the comments below.
00:00 Immigration
00:37 America — a new kind of society
00:58 People move to improve their lives
01:30 Why does the welfare state cause resentment?
01:54 The problem with economic nationalism
02:36 Immigrants compete for jobs
02:57 Cultural homogeneity
03:47 The erosion of the constitution's checks on Government
04:18 How is immigration a right?
04:46 The importance of free movement
05:10 Tribal ideology
05:45 The right to life is the most fundamental right of all
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Do we need rules and standards? Who agreed to the Social Contract? And what is the Social Contract anyway? Link to a free novel in the description!
00:00 The Social Contract
00:48 The Social Contract and The Enlightenment
01:18 People need rules and standards
01:50 The Social Contract is an implicit agreement
02:15 Why is something that isn't actually a contract called a contract?
03:10 Liberty is dangerous
03:40 A two-way street of freedoms and restraints
04:18 Rights are the source of security
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The Social Contract is an implicit agreement between everyone in a given society. Even babies. If that isn’t bad enough, it’s based on the conclusion that a society governed by law requires the sacrifice of its individual members' rights to remain secure.
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Are all white people racist? Should you feel guilt for the crimes of your ancestors? How is racism like original sin? In this video, Mark Pellegrino talks about the new racism: what it is and what it has become.
00:00 The New Racism
00:39 Racism gets a linguistic makeover
00:59 What was racism?
01:34 Collective sin
02:00 You're bad because you're you
02:33 All white people are racist
02:57 What happened to moral agency?
03:30 Power through guilt
04:03 Racism is real
04:35 Individualism is the true anti-racism
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'The sooner we get back to understanding that racism is a choice, made by individual moral simpletons who speak and act only for themselves and not their racial group, the sooner we can throw the New Racism on the trash heap of history and get on with the business of judging each other by the content of our characters… not by the color of our skins or the historical failings of our ancestors.'
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Duty. Selflessness. Sacrifice. The common good. Altruism has been the dominant moral code in pretty much every culture around the world for thousands of years — why is that? Mark Pellegrino explains.
00:00 Altruism
00:30 The Good Son
00:59 What is Altruism?
01:37 What is duty?
01:56 What is selflessness?
02:22 What is sacrifice?
02:37 What is the common good?
03:29 What's the alternative?
04:00 Virtues are the map
04:29 What about others?
04:53 Live and be happy
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'A decent morality would start first and foremost with life; specifically your life, not someone else's, because your life is the only one you can live.'
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Mark Pellegrino explains why it's important to think about the long-term rather than the short-term in order to live a good life. When looked at from this perspective, the things people call 'selfish' really aren't good for us at all.
Why is putting yourself first a bad thing? Blame Religion. AND science. Curious? If you want to know what religion and science have to do with life as a long-term project, Mark Pellegrino explains in four-and-a-half minutes. Check it out:
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Do people have the right to a living wage? Is paying a low wage for low-value work exploitation? What about unpaid interns or people who pay to work? Mark Pellegrino talks about need and the value of labor, and why the minimum wage can hurt those it's meant to help.
00:00 Minimum Wage
00:30 If something is more expensive, do you buy more or less of it?
00:51 Economic law
01:13 A reality-bound code of values
01:40 Altruism and need
02:17 Need and the welfare state
02:40 The Living Wage
02:59 Supply and demand
03:20 The employee as a ward of the employer
03:48 Exploitation
04:14 Reality is neither fair nor unfair
04:42 Thomas Sowell: the real minimum wage is zero
05:12 Wages can be low, zero and negative
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'If you price someone out of the labor market and they can’t get a job because their labor isn’t worth the new price, are you hurting them?'
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Ever noticed how many concepts have been corrupted by common usage away from meanings intended to promote liberal values to meanings intended to promote illiberal values? Tolerance used to mean the understanding that reasoning beings with differing opinions, ideas, and ideologies, must abstain from violence against those with whom they disagree, but now it's becoming synonymous with acceptance. In this video, Mark Pellegrino explains why that's a problem.
00:00 Tolerance
00:24 Corruption of concepts
01:13 The virtue of abstaining from violence
01:38 The first pluralistic society in recorded history
02:04 What is acceptance?
02:38 Compulsory acceptance kills tolerance.
03:20 Pronouns
03:59 Cultural egalitarianism
04:39 Is tolerance acceptance?
"Your neighbor is not responsible for your self-esteem, and you are not responsible for theirs."
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What is capitalism? Where did capitalism come from? What does capitalism do? What was life like before capitalism? Mark Pellegrino answers these questions and corrects some misconceptions about capitalism.
00:00 What's the truth about capitalism?
00:45 Is capitalism driven by the profit motive?
01:41 What was the real world like before capitalism?
02:17 The effect of capitalism
03:00 What is systemic economic liberty?
03:24 The birth of capitalism
03:47 The Age of Reason
04:30 What does capitalism do?
05:10 Capitalism is progressive
05:37 The moral object of capitalism
06:01 Life has been hard for humans for 200,000+ years
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'Since the moral object of capitalism is self fulfillment and not self sacrifice, it has chaffed against the dominant altruist ethics from its inception.'
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In this episode, the tenth in the series, Mark Pellegrino discusses whether environmentalism is good for humans and proposes three ways to a human-first approach to the environment.
00:00 What is Environmentalism?
00:24 How do humans interact with the natural world?
01:10 What's the nature of our special relationship with the world?
02:15 What would a human-first approach to the environment look like?
02:38 Are humans part of nature?
03:03 Why do we romanticize the simpler days of the hunter-gatherer?
03:38 What would a humanistic environmental policy look like?
03:48 What's in it for the political class?
04:21 What kind of 'ism' is best for humans?
'It’s time to take the environmental out of environmentalism and replace it with human… the real humanism of a liberal society that does not treat human action as if it is in natural conflict with everything else, cause it isn't.'
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Are we living in the real world? Do we see the world as it is? Or are we living in an illusion? How can we tell the difference? And what does Plato have to do with all this anyway?
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In this video, Mark Pellegrino addresses some important questions about democracy.
• Does democracy protect rights?
• Does democracy give you a political voice?
• Is democracy the ideal political system?
• Why do politicians keep calling our republic a democracy?
As you watch, ask yourself: who benefits most from a democracy?
00:00 Democracy
00:23 Rule by the people?
00:50 Who are the people?
01:29 How the founders avoided the pitfalls of majority rule
01:50 Why we have a Representative Republic
02:14 What is a Republic?
02:34 What is Democracy?
02:56 Who benefits most from a democracy?
03:30 What’s the result of democratization?
'Whenever you hear someone claim “we’re in a democracy,” tell them we aren’t, and we shouldn’t be, because rights can’t be compromised and reason can’t take a back seat to the majority if we hope to maintain what little Freedom we still have left.'
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What is anarchy? Is anarchy good? Is government a marketable service? Is government open to competition? Should customer satisfaction be a primary driver of government services? Mark Pellegrino addresses these questions and more in this video.
0:00 Anarchy
0:40 Why are people disillusioned with the republicans and the democrats?
1:21 What is anarchy?
1:40 Why do anarchists think governments are evil?
2:18 Is government a marketable service?
3:04 Is government open to competition?
3:43 Should customer satisfaction be a primary driver of government services?
4:30 Government is as good or as bad as the values of those using it
5:30 Government is here to stay
'Is that which destroys the fundamental conditions of a market marketable? I don’t know. I think not.'
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What kind of power do billionaires like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have? And what kind of power do politicians like Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau have? Do you see the difference? In this video, Mark Pellegrino explains the difference between the power to persuade (economic power) and the power to compel (political power).
00:00 The Problem of Power
00:22 There are two types of power
00:39 The power to persuade
01:25 Economic power
01:42 The power to compel
02:08 Political power
03:00 Mixed economies
'No matter how badly Steve Jobs wanted to turn you against Microsoft, he couldn’t raid your house in the middle of the night, kidnap you, and hold you in confinement till you changed your mind. He can only persuade you by creating something that sways your preferences away from his competitor. Not so the politician who could pass a law against you that favors his constituency and handicaps yours or, if his political world lacks even the semblance of Republican checks and balances, kill or imprison you for the simple fact that you are the competition and he doesn’t like that.'
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What are political parties? What's the difference between the political parties in the two-party system? How much choice do we actually have? In this video, Mark Pellegrino talks about two ways of morally organizing society — collectivist and individualist — and how both the democrats and the republicans are essentially different takes on the same collectivist ideal.
0:00 The illusion of the two-party system
0:32 History of the two-party system
0:50 The collectivistic perspective
1:29 The individualistic perspective
2:00 What are political parties?
2:29 There is no middle ground
2:50 The illusion of choice
3:05 We can't live in a permanent state of compromise
'As no individual can live with two opposing moral codes guiding his behavior, no society can
either… and as no individual can compromise between two fundamentally opposing moral
codes without the bad one winning, no society can either. That’s why at various times in our own history, one party or moral organization was dominant for long stretches, and why the two parties today don’t seem all that far apart on fundamentals.'
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Why is embracing your own interests a bad thing? Mark Pellegrino explains how being selfish means choosing things which are in your long-term best interests, and things that we sometimes think of as selfish aren't good for us at all.
0:00 Selfishness
0:22 Why is embracing your own interests a bad thing?
0:42 Blame it on religion
1:23 Blame it on science
2:33 What if religion and science are both wrong?
2:53 Reasoning consciousness
3:18 Life is a long-term project
3:40 Almost everything we think of as selfish is bad for us
'For human beings life itself is not an immediate challenge, but a long term project. Almost all of what lies in our selfish interests is in the long term and what one usually defines as sin or animal nature – the source of all that agita about selfishness — is really just a disavowal of this fact.'
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What are rights? Do you know what YOU have a right to? What's the difference between a right and a duty? What are YOUR obligations towards others? Mark Pellegrino explains positive and negative rights in two types of society. Which would you rather live in? Let Mark know in the comments!
0:00 What are rights?
0:25 What rights do you have?
0:56 What are the different types of rights in a moral society?
1:09 A positive right is a claim someone else can make on you
1:33 A negative right prevents others from making a claim on you
2:10 Which approach to rights leads to a more secure and peaceful society?
2:30 Duties are unchosen obligations
2:54 Should you have to fund a war you don't support?
3:18 Positive rights aren't really rights at all!
'Claims to service you can’t say no to have been called by other names at other times in history and have been outlawed for good reason, because rights and claims to service are incompatible.'
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What does it mean to be created equal? Mark Pellegrino explains what differences we can and can't control and why equality means equal before the law.
0:00 Equality
0:46 What does it mean to be created equal?
1:15 We humans are not the same!
1:58 If nature doesn't make us equal, what does?
2:37 Equality before the law
2:48 Egalitarians and the unequal application of laws and restraints
3:15 What we can and can't control
'Sameness of rules and sameness in our relation to those rules. That is what equality means.'
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Do you want freedom or liberty? What's the difference? In this video, Mark Pellegrino explains that you can only be liberated from another person because only people can use force when they don’t have to. You can't be liberated from natural constraints like gravity.
0:00 Liberty
0:24 Liberty is freedom from… what?
0:48 Freedom means 'without constraints'
1:38 The desire to be free from the world as it is — Kant, Rousseau, Plato, Marx, Jesus
2:10 'Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' — Thomas Hobbs
2:22 You can only be 'liberated' from another moral agent
2:42 Moral agents choose the constraint of liberty
3:06 Liberty is freedom from people
'The natural constraints of reality and life cannot be pretended out of existence. At best, the burden of complying with these unalterable realities can be shifted temporarily to another.'
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So why DO we think evil is so powerful? In this video, the first in a series of philosophy shorts, Mark Pellegrino explores the philosophy of evil and good. Check your premises and rethink one of the most important topics in the world today.
0:00 Is evil a big, bad scary monster or just a big fat flop?
1:05 Have you ever stopped to think about the way we define what’s good?
2:20 Plato gave us the idea that the material world is bad and the spiritual world is good.
2:59 Plato’s way of thinking creates a conflict.
3:47 Why is evil so alluring?
4:43 How do you achieve a thriving life?
5:07 Being good is the only way you can live and be happy!
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'Evil is powerful, seductive, and beautiful because life is powerful, seductive, and beautiful. And an attractive bad versus an unattractive good is what happens when you make what’s good work at cross purposes to life.'
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Reality Check with Mark Pellegrino — short videos about big ideas.
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