Phil.230 Topics in Ethics and Political Theory:
Personal Autonomy and Authenticity
Instructor:
John Santiago
Lecture Notes
Week 1:
Frankfurt: "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person"
Week 2:
Frankfurt: "Identification and Externality"
Watson: "Free Agency"
Week 3:
Thalberg: "Hierarchical Analysis of Unfree Action"
Week 4:
Frankfurt: "Identification and Wholeheartedness"
Dworkin: "The Nature of Autonomy"
Christman: "Autonomy and Personal History"
Week 5
Friedman: "Autonomy and the Split-Level Self"
Meyers: "Self-Direction and Personal Integration"
Meyers: "Autonomy Competencies"
Week 6
Anzaldua: "Movimientos de rebeldia…"
Anzaldua: "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"
Week 7
Anzaldua: "La Conciencia de la Mestiza"
Week 8
Meyers: "Intersectional Identity"
Week 9
Meyers: Intersectional Identity
Week 10
Santiago Baca: "A Place to Stand: Prologue & Part I"
Week 11
Santiago Baca:
"A Place to Stand: Ch.8"Week 12
"A Place to Stand: Ch.8"
Week 13
Santiago Baca:
"A Place to Stand: Ch.10&11"Week 14
"A Place to Stand: Ch.10&11"
Week 15
Benson:
"Free Agency and Self Worth"Oshana:
"Autonomy and Society"Final Exam Schedule
: Thursday, Dec. 12th (10:30 - 12:30), Rm. 100 SH
Music Trivia (Quotes for the Semester):
1.
If I told you she was your mother.
We could analyze the situation and be gone.
If I said you ought to give her some of your water
Your eyes would light up like the dawn.
The perception that divides you from her
Is a lie. For some reason you never ask why.
This is not a black and white world.
You can’t afford to believe in your side.
This is not a black and white world.
To be alive I say the colors must swirl.
And I believe that maybe today
We will all get to appreciate
The beauty of gray…
2.
You said it couldn’t be done
Told me that it’s the kind of battle that just couldn’t be won,
You know
"You’re too sick, too hard, too f `d in the head."
"You’ll never make it, no, not in this lifetime."
Well guess again, my friend, don’t act surprised…
Another goddamn slap in the face.
Don’t wanna give us a place, are you afraid?
Well fear this, ‘cause I’m breaking through the walls of your nightmare…
The way I’m living there is no compromising it.
Better get ready for another surprise,
And it
May leave a mark, because I’m coming in fast
Planting thoughts in your mind and droppin’ plates on you’re a$$…
3.
Don’t expect too much from me
Perfection is no test for me
Because the best I’ll ever be
Is just like you –a human being
You won’t offend, I need to know
Please my friend, show me your soul.
4.
He deals the cards to find the answer,
The sacred geometry of chance,
A hidden law of a probable outcome.
The numbers lead a dance.
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that’s not the shape of my heart.
He may play the Jack of Diamonds.
He may lay the Queen of Spades.
He may conceal a King in his hand,
While the memory of it fades.
5.
No Chance
Not for a minute
Not for a second
I won’t be defensive
But straight out
In my opinion.
You better listen to a man
Who knows what he’s saying.
I see your side
You run and hide
From the mere fact
That you feel inferior.
Be superior and know your interior.