Nature and human values by https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy portfolio en-us 2020-08-25 22:28:55 UTC 2025-12-09 17:32:42 UTC hello@padlet.com What philosophy resonated with me. elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/710615802 Virtue ethics resonated with me the most. It seemed to be a good middle ground between some of the other philosophies. It focused on being good but reasonable. I liked the example the author gave of being generous but only to those who need it. I also liked the idea of being successful was different for every person and they would be considered successful by fostering their own talents. I liked the idea that every person is different and has different talents but can be successful in their own way.]]> 2020-09-01 02:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/710615802 River in the valley elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/713394557 This picture has a view of the mountains and the river I choose it because it’s so different then the views in Minnesota.]]> 2020-09-01 22:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/713394557 Lecture 1 City of text elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737071702 2020-09-10 21:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737071702 Lecture 2 moral spheres elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737072799 2020-09-10 21:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737072799 Lecture 3 Science and engineering ethics elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737073888 2020-09-10 21:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737073888 A good engineer elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737076458 2020-09-10 21:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737076458 Instructions elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737087516 Title your response with the title of the lecture. And then each time that you respond to a lecture on your own Padlet, be sure to include the following:
  1. At least two sentences responding to one or more of the prompts given in the lecture materials. You may write more if you wish, but aim for at least 30 words of thoughtful, critical response to the prompts. 
  2. Two facts (or definitions) from the Lecture restated in your own words. If you are quoting something directly, indicate this with quotation marks AND THEN rephrase it in your own words. 
  3. A link to clearly related outside media, with an explanation of what in the linked-to material relates to the lecture (and how it relates). You should include a comment that introduces and summarizes the thing being linked before you explain your thoughts on how it connects to the lecture. (If you prefer, you can create a separate tile for this part).
]]> 2020-09-10 21:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737087516 Description elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737088889 This column is for posting responses to prompts or exercises given during recitation. No homework assignments should be posted here; time will be given in recitation to add responses to this column.]]> 2020-09-10 21:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737088889 Description & Instructions elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737089085 This column is for documenting the writing and critical thinking process over the semester. 

There are two types of posts to make here:

1. Required workshop reflections: after every small group workshop, report and reflect on the workshop process. Describe what happened – activities done, skills practiced, and results of the workshop. Also reflect on how the workshop session went: successes or satisfactions, challenges or frustrations, things learned & questions raised. This should be done in the last few minutes of the workshop time or right after the workshop ends.

2. Connection posts: Use this column as a kind of "writer's notebook," a the place to collect ideas, thoughts, and materials for possible use in later writing assignments, especially for the research paper and the final portfolio. At least once a week ( after one or both recitation sessions), a post should be added that reflects on and attempts to connect the course materials and activities to other ideas and resources. ]]> 2020-09-10 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/737089085 Lecture 4 Response elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/746582073 1. Moral Relativism
The difference in philosophical positions and moral judgments across cultures.

2. Utilitarianism
Maximize human happiness

3. Deontology
Act on weather the action is good or bad not on its consequences 

4. Virtue Ethics
Focused on moral character and virtues

5. Liberalism
The

1. What are some examples that Sandel provides of things that money CAN buy?

2. What are some examples of things that money CAN’T buy?

3. What is the difference between “market economies” and “market societies”?

1. Students and Sandel identify (at least) four objections to such a practice. List those objections.

2. Connect these objections to the concepts from Chapter Two. Which concept/s seem to be most in play here?
]]> 2020-09-15 04:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/746582073 Lecture 10 Response elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/864073489 Positives:
Genetic engineering- Elimination of Genetic diseases, increased humans natural abilities.
Nanotechnology- Improved healthcare 
Robotics- Increased automation, better prosthetic limbs.
Negatives:
Genetic engineering- We perfect Genetic engineering creating a 'perfect' human and all future children are born exactly the same.
Nanotechnology- Risk of self replicating nanotechnology destroying the world
Robotics- Robotics takes over almost all jobs leaving most of the world unemployed.
Related link: I choose this link because it talks about both sides of many of the topics discussed in the lecture. ]]> 2020-10-27 01:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/864073489 Lecture 9 Response elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/864225803 What do deontology and consequentialism have in common? They both aim to be good to people and to be fair to people. 
Would you report your father? No, I Would cover for him as long as him taking the sheep wasn't hurting other people. I would cover for him because family is important to me. 
How is Confucian Ethics different from deontology and consequentialism? Confucian Ethics puts much more value on personal relationships while deontology and consequentialism treat all people equally.  ]]> 2020-10-27 02:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/864225803 Lecture 8 Response elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/867381022 Is human control over our environment likely to be a lasting feature of our existence? I think that for as long as we exist we will continue to have control over our environment but I think over controlling our environment may lead to the end of our existence.
Do you favor a conservationist or preservationist approach? I favor a conservationist approach I think it is best to let nature run its course as it naturally would.
What are the best means of ensuring environmental justice for all human communities? The best way to ensure environmental justice for all human communities is to first set global regulations for how resources are used to make sure that they are used in a sustainable way. Beyond that different populations can decide how the available resources are used.
Eco-Modernism says humans should first protect nature and second try and improve human life   
Anthropocene- Is the age of human control over the environment and world.
 Related link:
I choose this article as a related source because it provides an example where humans think they are doing something to protect the environment but it is actually better for us to let nature run its course.
]]> 2020-10-27 19:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/867381022 Time management elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/867668940 During the week I wake up at 9AM Monday through Wednesday  and 7AM Thursday and Friday. I go to my classes and am usually finished by 5 each day. I try to do some homework in between classes during the day but most I do after I'm done with classes in the evening. I also try to do some physical activity or some outdoor activity almost every day. I try to go rock climbing 2-3 times a week and days I don't climb I will go for some type of hike. I go camping almost every weekend leaving Saturday morning and  get back by noon Sunday and start to do the homework I have for the weekend. My values that I see in myself based of this assessment are: I appreciate spending time outdoors and doing exercise and school. ]]> 2020-10-27 21:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/867668940 Lecture 11 Digital Technology elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/884475504 How does this argument about the impact of social media relate to your life and your habits? Social media affects what we do from when we wake up to when we go to sleep. It dictates how we spend our time and what we believe.
 Why can’t an algorithm/a machine be neutral? In the case of facial recognition a neural network cannot be neutral because it will be better at detecting faces more similar to the faces from the dataset that the neural network was trained from.
Facial recognition: AI is used to recognize faces and things like age race and gender.
Racial bias in algorithms: Artificial intelligence shows bias against certain groups because the data used to train those AI was created by a racist system.
     There was a controversy where google mistakenly identified a man as a monkey. I think this is a perfect connection when talking about facial recognition. ]]> 2020-11-03 00:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/884475504 Lecture 12 Nuclear Technology elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/906482184 What are some other examples of the concept of dual use?
Machine learning can be used for both things like protein folding and things like predicting peoples actions.
 What would have been the impact of halting the spread of nuclear weapons immediately after the Trinity test? Or even after Nagasaki? How do the scientists’ reactions to the dropping of the bombs belie their personal ethics and connect to dual use?
If after the Trinity test or Nagasaki development of nuclear weapons by the U.S. had been halted I think that the technology would  have still been developed but not mass produced. If the US had set a standard against Nuclear weapons I think much of the world would have followed. The scientists show regret in having developed the weapon and what it led to. Many say that they had wished for a demonstration of force not against people but this did not happen. This  is an example of dual use the scientists wanted the weapon to be used as a tool to end the war without killing people but it was used to kill people and became another weapon. 
What concerns you the most about nuclear technology in the world today? That at any moment someone could make a decision and almost everyone in the world would be dead within a few hours. ]]> 2020-11-09 23:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/906482184 Lecture 13: Water in the West elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/933625745 Why do you think this Colorado River video was done in the first person, with the river speaking for itself? Did the first person perspective surprise you (or not), and why? Did you know that treating rivers like people under the law is a legal strategy being used around the world to protect rivers? What are some of the ethical implications of ascribing “personhood” to rivers?

This video was done in first person to make the water empathize more and feel more of a connection to the river. It surprises me that treating rivers as people is being used as a legal strategy. It seems hard to argue because they have no will of there own. The implications of treating rivers as people include possible restrictions on the use of the river.

What aspects of your everyday landscape do you take for granted as “natural”? This may be on campus, at home, or somewhere else. Going further, do you know where your drinking water comes from? If you do know where your water comes from, how did you learn this information? If you don’t know where your water comes from, why don’t you? And would you call that an engineering success, an engineering failure, or something else entirely? What are some of the ramifications of not knowing where your drinking water comes from?

I take for granted the shape of the of the valley and hills in Golden I've assumed they are natural but don't know for sure. I don't know where my water comes from because I've never bothered to look. I would call me not knowing where it comes from a engineering successes it mean I do not need to worry about how I am getting my water. The ramification of not knowing meaning I do not know how my water supply could potentially be affected.


Imagine a geographic scenario where the Colorado River ended in Southern California rather than across the United States border in entirely different country (Mexico). If the community of San Luis Rio Colorado were instead Los Angeles or San Diego, would the condition of the river’s delta be different? Why or why not? Work the concept of “environmental justice” into your answer.

If the river ended somewhere in the united states the river delta would likely be in better condition because it is affecting our country more.
  
]]> 2020-11-17 19:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/933625745 Lecture 14 Response elibrewer https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/958773718 What is Redlining?
Redlining is the systematic denial of government services based off of where somebody lives, usually poorer neighborhoods.]]> 2020-11-25 05:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elibrewer/tu9wy0awuqm36asy/wish/958773718