used for a end-of-class presentation a few years ago.

1. Philosophy Project
Presentation
EDU 5053, Neal Cross

2. Two Lesson Plans
New employee training, in the
manners of Pragmatism and
Theistic Realism.
link

3. Three Art Forms, for
Pragmatism, Theistic
Realism, and Postmodernism
Art Form – Rock and Roll songs,
with attention paid to the lyrics.

4. Song One - Pragmatism
• Living Colour
– Album: Stain
– Track 2
• Ignorance is Bliss
• http://www.livingcolour.com
• http://www.livingcolournet.com

5. Living Colour - Ignorance is Bliss -
Pragmatism
• Verse One:
Living with myself is hard enough
So I get away when things get rough
Famine, strife, and thoughts of war
Matter less than the dress she wore

6. Living Colour - Ignorance is Bliss -
Pragmatism
• Chorus:
(you see) Ignorance is bliss
Problem solved with just one kiss
Ignorance is bliss
Problem solved with just one kiss
• Instrumental interlude

7. Living Colour - Ignorance is Bliss -
Pragmatism
• Verse Two:
I'm just trying to survive
Pay my bills and stay alive
All the world's problems ain't my
fault
I take it all with a grain of salt

8. Living Colour - Ignorance is Bliss -
Pragmatism
• Chorus (2nd time):
(you see) Ignorance is bliss
Problem solved with just one kiss
Ignorance is bliss
Problem solved with just one kiss

9. Living Colour - Ignorance is Bliss -
Pragmatism
• Interlude:
Ignorance…
Ignorance is no excuse
Your problem's solved,
but what's the use
Ignorance is no excuse
The problem's solved,
then what's the use

10. Living Colour - Ignorance is Bliss -
Pragmatism
• Verse Three:
I try to tell them everyday
But nobody listens to a word I say
Look out my window, what do you see?
Sometimes it's worse than that stupid TV
(I swear…)
• instrumental interlude

11. Living Colour - Ignorance is Bliss -
Pragmatism
• Guitar Solo
• Repeating ending:
Ignorance is bliss, Ignorance
Ignorance is bliss, Ignorance
Ignorance is bliss, Ignorance
Well, ignorance is bliss, Ignorance
(oh-oh)

12. Pragmatism
• Why is Ignorance is Bliss by Living Colour
an art form that typifies Pragmatism?
– Shows one way of dealing with the problems
of Life; find Bliss via Ignorance.
• If problems are not my fault, they do not require my
dealing with them
– Interlude and Verse Three
• A shift of opinion, that Ignorance is not an answer?
– Repeating Ending
• The problematic solution choice of Ignorance to
remain in a state of Bliss is Ignorance itself.
– A real solution for the problem is still needed

13. Song Two – Theistic Realism
• Alter Bridge
– Album: One Day
Remains
– Track 2
• One Day Remains
• http://www.alterbridge.com
• In Concert
– Springfield, 1/25/04 @
Rockwell

14. Alter Bridge – One Day Remains –
Theistic Realism
• Verse One:
As your will is bent and broken
And every vision has been cast into the
wind
As your courage crashes down before
your eyes
Don’t lay down and die

15. Alter Bridge – One Day Remains –
Theistic Realism
• Chorus:
Cause I see in you
More than you’ll ever know
And I ask you why
You question the strength inside
And you need to know
How it feels to be alive

16. Alter Bridge – One Day Remains –
Theistic Realism
• Verse Two:
When every wound has been reopened
And in this world of give and take you
must have faith
And the distance to your dreams stretch
beyond reach
Don’t lay down and die

17. Alter Bridge – One Day Remains –
Theistic Realism
• Chorus (2nd time):
Cause I see in you
More than you’ll ever know
And I ask you why
You question the strength inside
And you need to know
How it feels to be alive

18. Alter Bridge – One Day Remains –
Theistic Realism
• Interlude:
How it feels
How it feels to be alive
How it feels
How it feels to be alive
How it feels
How it feels to be alive

19. Alter Bridge – One Day Remains –
Theistic Realism
• Chorus (3rd time):
Cause I see in you
More than you’ll ever know
And I ask you why
You question the strength inside
And you need to know
How it feels to be alive (x2)

20. Theistic Realism
• Why is One Day Remains by Alter Bridge
an art form that typifies Theistic Realism?
– Verse Two:
• “in this world of give and take you must have faith”
– Epistemology: Knowing is observing via
senses & arriving at concepts
• “you need to know how it feels to be alive”
– Axiology: personal excellence, common
humanity
• Chorus lyrics

21. Song Three - Postmodernism
•Living Colour
–Album: Time’s Up
–Track 8
•Type
•http://www.livingcolour.com
•http://www.livingcolournet.com

22. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Verse One:
Stereotype, Monotype
Blood type, Are you my type?
Minimalism, Abstract expressionism
Postmodernism
Is’nt it?

23. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Chorus:
We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where the truth is
concealed
This is the time when the lie is revealed
Everything is possible, but nothing is real

24. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Verse Two:
Corporate religion, Televanga-hypnotism
Suffer till you die
For the sweet bye-and-bye
Science and technology, the new
mythology
Look deep inside, Empty

25. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Chorus (2nd time):
We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where the truth is
concealed
This is the time when the lie is revealed
Everything is possible, but nothing is real

26. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Interlude:
Everything that goes around
Comes around
• Guitar Solo

27. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Verse Three:
Hypothetical, Theoretical
Circumstantial evidence
Irrelevance
Don't think twice, Just roll the dice
Pay the price, Snake eyes

28. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Chorus (3rd time):
We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where the truth is
concealed
This is the time when the lie is revealed
Everything is possible, but nothing is real

29. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Chorus (4th time, modified):
We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where your fate has
been sealed
This is the time when your life is revealed
Everything is possible, but [nothing is](x5)
Nothing is Real… Nothing is Real

30. Living Colour – Type -
Postmodernism
• Interlude:
Everything that goes around
Comes around... (x2, round
style X12)
• Nearly 1.5 minutes spent on the fading,
round style ending
– May stop early to save time

31. Postmodernism
• Why is Type by Living Colour an art form
that typifies Postmodernism?
– “Postmodernism” mentioned in Verse One 
– Verse One “types”, Chorus “children of
concrete and steel”
• Boxes, labels created by those in power
• Displays bigotry (“are you my type?”)
– No basis for reality, no compass for truth
• Chorus “everything is possible but nothing is real”
• No Truths (verse three’s words)
• No metaphysics – “nothing is real”

32. Neal Cross’
Original Quote
Regarding
Theistic Realism…

33. Theistic Realism Quote
• God, who preexists our reality of Time and
Space, spoke our reality into being with His
Word. He made us in His image, placing us
in a world where we have free choice. Life
in this reality is about our relationship
choices with God, our fellow images, and the
rest of Creation, with God giving us the time
and space to make choices and experience
consequences. Given our two basic life
challenges, Learning and Doing, the Godly
Life is the one that both learns and does.
– Neal Cross