Climb ft. Ryan McInerney Lyrics

This idea of thinking transformatively from the inside

Acquires character and structure if we think of being minded

As standing in the midst of Being

Our capacity to think implies that our views about what it means to exist

Or how we might live, generally and in the here and now

Can undergo transformation.

Education is the original event of transformative thinking

[McInerney 2021, page 113]

Stay true to yourself

Climb up the mountain

And if you need help

I'll be there for you

If you need to change

Remember where you came from

And know

That I came from there, too

Philosophy, like the drop of the down beat

Does not stand in a world all by itself

But acknowledges and anticipates and thereby

Sustains the total dynamic range of our questioning

Only because we can reflect on our accordance

Can we resolve our discord

And consider its myriad potentials

[McInerney 2021, page 5]

Stay true to yourself

Climb up the mountain

And if you need help

I'll be there for you

If you need to change

Remember where you came from

And know

That I came from there, too

If philosophy is the activity of self-understanding as such

Then it is happening in some way or other wherever there are thinking beings

If that is true, then philosophy happens profoundly in education

Which is about how to understand ourselves and the world in which we live

Educators bring the world into view for others

They wake children to the world in the first place

Teaching them how to think in relation to things in general

They do this by introducing children to language

That dynamic repository of history, the living embodiment of mind

And the effect, the fundamental achievement of education in that very broad sense

Is a metaphysical transformation

It is the advent of metaphysics in the individual

At the same time, to be able to do philosophy

Is to be able to educate in turn

To be able to help bring the world into view for others

That is indeed to say something about education that is fundamental

For if the result of education is the possibility of philosophy

Of metaphysics' getting under way

Then that means the monumental achievement of education

Is nothing less than the renewed possibility of education itself

[McInerney 2021, page 59]