06/02/2023 Click here for Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube. “Philosophy 101” is my 46th official release. This song is edutainment, or educational entertainment which is music that teaches you. The song is a laid-back, intellectually stimulating track about the ideas of Philosophy. It is called “Philosophy 101” because, as the song proclaims, it was created from Cornell West’s “Introduction to Philosophy” masterclass. The song was intentionally released on June 2nd because it’s Cornell’s birthday. Happy birthday Professor West. The song was self-recorded, but mixed and mastered by Keyano. The beat is from Tantu, and the cover art is made by ArtworkGang from Fiverr.
You can see me talk about this blog post from last Sunday Update here:
Lyrics:
So look, I wrote this song based off Cornell West’s Introduction to Philosophy Masterclass
The call me Eric Leo 108, I’m a philosopher myself. Thanks for letting me teach ya.
Learning philosophy is a form of death
That you hold about assumption you keep bereft
When it comes to edutainment I got that for your ears
The experience feels like I’ve been teachin 44 years
To think every dogma wrong is fraught and dogmatic
Even a clock right twice a day if broken and enigmatic
Are your assumptions rational and valid?
To you and others, brother, ask what is like Socrates did
If you wanna pursue philosophy in a serious way
You gotta be nonconformist and question how you pray
Think, live, eat, fix, get, give, go big
With your jazzy fingerprints is all I wanna cope with
Self-scrutiny is critical, self-inventory intervals
Inside of you, scrutinize it, and emerge singular
Ablest elitist the average intellectual
Make your power egalitarian and let it all unfold
If you wanna philosophize
Learn how to die
Kill your assumptions
And let new thoughts arise
Explore them, empathize
Peer-reviewed and socialized
Modify’um improvise
Give attention, emphasize
If you wanna philosophize
Learn how to die
Kill your assumptions
And let new thoughts arise
Explore them, empathize
Peer-reviewed and socialized
Modify’um improvise
Give attention, emphasize
Socrates never cried, but emotion a need
The story of his death is more important than Eden’s
And what Adam and Eve were eatin
I know, but tell me what you learned bout Vishnu and Shiva
The devil hides himself in the lack of diversity of religion
So you gotta explore and accept more dogma so he won’t win
The indifference to evil is worse than evil itself
Thanks to all the good samaritans who stopped and helped
Philosophy is the education for adults
So let go of your biases and rethink it from the start
The results of philosophy on the population
Are mature critical thinking and attention formation
You should lead yourself to a joyful adventure
Take your soul witcha, experience the venture
Whether summer or winter you can wish on a star
And what you wish for says so much about who you are
Life has a way of humbling you
I’ll tell you what it do
Stay humble, or get played a fool
Life has a way of humbling you
Stay humble, or get played a fool
Compassion is a form of love
It’s a moral practice, comes from inside of us
Maybe one day we’ll involve the stance
That the ego must die for us to evolve and understand
If you wanna philosophize
Learn how to die
Kill your assumptions
And let new thoughts arise
Explore them, empathize
Peer-reviewed and socialized
Modify’um improvise
Give attention, emphasize
If you wanna philosophize
Learn how to die
Kill your assumptions
And let new thoughts arise
Explore them, empathize
Peer-reviewed and socialized
Modify’um improvise
Give attention, emphasize
If you wanna philosophize
Learn how to die
Kill your assumptions
And let new thoughts arise
Explore them, empathize
Peer-reviewed and socialized
Modify’um improvise
Give attention, emphasize
If you wanna philosophize
Learn how to die
Kill your assumptions
And let new thoughts arise
Explore them, empathize
Peer-reviewed and socialized
Modify’um improvise
Give attention, emphasize