Section 9 Group 1 (42) Midterm Project

Jordan, Jason, Seta, and I decided to make a music video over some of the philosophers we have discussed in class for our report.

Socrates Lyrics: (to "Barbie Girl" tune)

Hey Soc!

Hey Plato!

Do you wanna go for a walk?

Sure Soc!

Let’s Go!

I am Socrates!  I’ll pester you indeed!

Life in Athens, yields lots of questions!

I’ll never brush my hair, ‘cause frankly I don’t care

I’ll make the case that, your life is vacant!

C’mon Socie, let’s beat sophists!

I am Socrates!  I’ll lecture you for free!

While not the wisest, I am enlightened

I’ll never brush my hair.  Let’s question if we care

Life unexamined is cognitive famine!

I’m an old, haggard male in a fantasy world

Life is not what it seems, my darling

You are down in a cave, break your chains away

Let’s ascend, to the light, walk with me

            (Let’s Stroll) (X 2)

I am Socrates!  You’ll find me walking in Greece

Part of my method, is to be intrepid

Come and talk to me, engage me if you please

To be Socratic, is so fantastic

            (C’mon Socie, Let’s go walking!

                        Oh-Oh Yeah!)  (X 4)

C’mon walk, let’s all talk, peripatetically

We can get to the heart of your hardheaded beliefs

C’mon friend, let’s dig in, what’s your theory again?

Break it down, let’s expound, pedagogy

            (C’mon Socie, Let’s go walking!

                        Oh-Oh Yeah!)  (X 4)

I am Socrates! Divine emissary

If you seek virtue, nothing can hurt you

Democracy is fair, but frankly I don’t care

They didn’t hear me, now they revere me

I am Socrates!  I’ll pester you indeed

Life in Athens, yields lots of questions

I’ll never brush my hair, ‘cause frankly I don’t care

I’ll make the case that, your life is vacant

            (C’mon Socie! Let’s go walking!

                        Oh-Oh Yeah!)  (X 4)

Pyrrho Lyrics: (to Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song)

Now is this a story all about how

Pyrrho got his wits all turned around?

Don’t take for granted

Just sit right there

And I’ll tell you about delusion and how you shouldn’t have a care

In Ancient Greece born and raised

On Elis was where I tried expanding my ways

No paying taxes ‘cause philosophers are cool

And as a skeptic, dogma makes me drool

Where a couple of friends who were nothing but good

Tried looking out for me any way they could

I looked at one little cliff, and they got scared!

They said, “There are rocks at the bottom if you get air!”

I looked up to the sky and contemplated life

And I said to myself, “What are things really like?”

I was pondering what it took to really be happy

And I said “just forget it” – “worrying would just be crappy!”

I decided firm beliefs required delusion

And that just to too much confusion

It was then that I realized

Nothing really mattered

And if you fell off a cliff, would you really get splattered?

Cicero Lyrics: (to "Firework" by Katy Perry)

Do you ever feel

Unoriginal

Just walk in my shoes

All I do is write prose

Do you ever feel

That to get ahead

You must reproduce

Works from those who are dead

Do you ever feel

That your philosophy

Is to compensate

For your failings politically

Do you know that there’s

Just no chance for me

My life’s a tragedy

I just gotta

Rewrite some Greek

Philosophy

I aim to please

To boost my self esteem

‘Cause baby, I am Cicero

My thoughts aren’t original

Make them go “oh, oh, oh”

This guy really writes great prose (‘ose, ‘ose)

Baby, I am Cicero

I spread Greek teachings in Rome

Make them go “oh, oh, oh”

His philosophy is so cool (‘ool, ‘ool)

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Philosophy is so cool (‘ool, ‘ool)

(Repeat 2X)