MiguelMartinez-SaenzAssistant Professor of Philosophy |
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To email me: mmartinezsaenz@wittenberg.edu (Scroll down for course information) |
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"If
you form the habit of going by what you hear others say
about someone, or going by what others think about
someone, instead of searching that thing out for
yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking
west when you think you're going east, and you will be
walking east when you think you're going west... The
most important thing we can learn to do today is think
for ourselves."
Malcolm X “Soon we shall breathe our last…Meanwhile, while we live, while we are among human beings, let us cultivate our humanity.” Seneca |
Poeta dentro de mi soledad. Testiga de este mundo soez, me arrastro con mis alas pesada hacia la cumbre desde donde me lanzaré como Ícaro, una y otra vez, porque quizás porque tal vez porque no me resigno. Gioconda Belli "Contra toda esperanza"
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You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shameWhy Study Philosophy
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"
Grading Policies
Reading and Writing in Philosophy
Guidelines for Discussion in Philosophy
Office Hours
Spring 2008
| Ethics and Community | Tuesday/Thursday 2:10-3:40 PM Syllabus |
| Globalization with a Human
Face |
MWF 3:00 - 4:00 PM Syllabus |
| Senior
Seminar |
M 5:00 - 8:00 PM Syllabus |
| Logic and Critical Reasoning |
MWF 12:40 - 1:40 Syllabus |
| Logic and Critical Reasoning | MWF 3:00 - 4:00 Syllabus |
Logic and Critical Reasoning (syllabus)
| Final Paper Guidelines |
Supreme Court Decisions |
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University of Michigan Admissions |
Senior Seminar (syllabus)
| Wittenberg Writing Center |
UNC Honors Theses |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Ethics and Social Justice |
MWF 9:10 -10:10 NESS syllabus |
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Logic and Critical Reasoning |
MWF 10:20 -11:20 HOL 315 syllabus |
| Logic and Critical Reasoning | MWF 3:00 - 4:00 HOL 315 syllabus |
| Contemporary Philosophy | MWF 12:40 - 1:40 HOL 315 syllabus |
Ethics and Social Justice (syllabus)
| LECTURES and POWERPOINT
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Rawls |
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Midterm Examination Questions |
Final Exam Questions |
| Philosophy of Culture in Latin
America |
MWF 8:00- 9:00 Syllabus |
| Logic and Critical Reasoning |
MWF 10:20-11:20 Syllabus |
| Logic and Critical Reasoning | MWF 11:30-12:30 Syllabus |
PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE (Syllabus)
| History
Will Absolve Me (1953)
We must defend our country (1961) |
Sixth Anniversary of the Victory of Playa Giron (1967) |
MAP LINK
For quiz Maps |
| Midterm Study Questions | ||
| Philosophy 306 Ethics of
Economic Development |
MWF 1:50-2:50 Syllabus |
| WittSem: Globalization
with a human face? |
MWF 3:00-4:00 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 312 20th Century Philosophy | TTH 2:10-3:40 Syllabus |
Ethics of Economic Development
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Truman's Point Four Message (Inaugural Address January 20, 1949) Universal Declaration of Human Rights UNDP 2004 Human
Development Report (Read Chapter 1) "Development:
Which Way Now?" by Amartya Sen
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| Russell Reading http://www.ditext.com/russell/russell.html |
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"Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" by Goya |
| Introduction to Ethics |
Syllabus |
| 1st Week: Tuesday (7/5),
Wednesday (7/6), Thursday (7/8) |
2nd Week: Monday (7/11)
NO CLASS, Tuesday (7/12), Wednesday (7/13) |
| 3rd Week: Monday (7/18)
MIDTERM, Wednesday (7/20), Thursday (7/21) |
4th Week: Tuesday (7/26),
Wednesday (7/27), Thursday (7/28) |
| 5th Week: Monday (8/1), Wednesday (8/3), Thursday
(8/4) FINAL EXAM |
| Philosophy 110R Logic
and Critical Reasoning |
MWF 9:10-10:10 and
MWF 10:20-11:20 HOL 315 Syllabus |
| Liberal Studies Colloquium |
M 6:30-9:45 HOL 331 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 205R Revolutions in Latin America | TTH 2:10-3:40 NESS Auditorium Syllabus |
| Philosophy 380 Ethics of
Economic Development |
MWF 1:50-2:50 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 110R Logic and Critical Reasoning | MWF 3:00-4:00 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 312 20th Century Philosophy | TTH 2:10-3:40 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 110R Logic and Critical Reasoning | MWF 1:50-1:50 and 3:00-4:00 Syllabus |
| Senior Seminar |
TTH 2:10-3:40 Syllabus |
| Common Learning |
MWF 10:20-11:20 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 110R Logic and Critical Reasoning | MWF 1:50-1:50 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 312 20th Century Philosophy | TTH 2:10-3:40 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 102R Introduction to Philosophy | MWF 10:20-11:20 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 102R Introduction to Philosophy | MWF 12:40-1:40 |
| Philosophy 312 20th Century Philosophy | TTH 2:10-3:40 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 110M Logic and Critical Thinking | MWF 1:50-2:50 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 200R Revolutions in Latin America | MWF 11:30-12:30 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 380 Ethics of Economic Development | TTH 2:10-3:40 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 110M Logic and Critical Thinking | MWF 1:50-2:50 Syllabus |
| Phil/Pol/Lit in Latin America | T Th 2:10:3:40 Syllabus |
| Culture Industry | Th 5:30-8:30 Syllabus |
| Philosophy 110M Logic and Critical Thinking | MWF 12:40-1:40 and 3:00-4:00 Syllabus |
| Phil/Pol/Lit in Latin America | T Th 2:10:3:40 Syllabus |
Logic and Critical Thinking (syllabus)
| MLK Day Reading
Question to Consider |
2000 Election |
| 2000 Election
Timeline |
(syllabus)