Same Last Name

Feelin' down

You've been feelin' beat

Your parents kicked you out of the house last week

You've got a shitty job

You make minimum wage

Open up the book, put your pen to the page

Marks on the mind

I've got Marx on the mind

Marx argued, the dialectic of history

Wasn't evident of a universal human consciousness

As Hegel described it instead dialectical in movement in history involved

Changes in ways society takes care of people's material needs

Now I switch on back

To another track

Dualism versus materialism,

As you might imagine, has been known as ideas attracted

A lot of attention and criticism

Might I mention from the other philosophers and theologians

The most popular influential belief about relationships between being

And knowing

Is dualism

Go forward

To another time in your life

Imagine in philosophy

Just psych

Working knowledge

The founders of pragmatism are Charles

Sanders Pierce and

William James

Both of whom

Taught philosophy

And other subjects

At Harvard University

Pierce was a mathematician turned philosopher

While James, brother of a famous novelist

Henry James

Took a medical degree

But went on to develop an interest in religion

(All have the same name anyway)

And taught psychology as well as philosophy

(All have the same name anyway)

Where the action is

That's what I'm sayin'

(All have the same name anyway)

Where the action is is

(All have the same name anyway)

Both practical results and a mix of experimental results

(All have the same, all have the same name anyway)

And our empirical rather than intuitive

But unlike experimental results (and if we all change our name)

(Change our name)

Versus practical results are produced in a laboratory (we'd never make it anyway)

But out in the world of living people (we all have the same last name)

Pierce saw ideas as plans of action (if we tried to change it we would never remember)

Switch back (if we tried to change our name this time we wouldn't remember)

Explaining evil under a just God

What evil is and what should be done about it (we all have the same last name)

Is a central problem of monotheism (same last name)

Why would a good, all powerful God (all have the same name anyway)

Allow so much evil to exist in the world? (all have have the same last name)

Monotheists have come up with many answers (all have the same last name)

We don't know what God wants.