Exam Week & End of Semester 1 Theology

This week will conclude our time in Morality. We will have a brief exam review along with final Beauty Shops and some consideration for next semester Social Justice classes.

Thank you!

Monday, January 14th

Exam Review

Please check out this resource (link) on the Seven Principle for Catholic Social Teaching. It is a link to Cabrini University. The hope is that we will continue work with them in the Immigration seminar and training like we did last Spring.

CST Principles
https://www.cabrini.edu/about/departments/wolfington-center/principles-of-catholic-social-teaching

PLEASE NOTE

For the take home essay, I have decided to have you select either Part I OR 
Part II of the questions related to Digital Ethics. Please type your response using specific examples. Your response should be a minimum of 15 sentences. Types, Times New Roman, 12 point font, double spaced
Answer

Part 1. Keeping in mind Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and our case study on the Pillow Angel Ethic (The Ashley Treatment), Do you think it is too late to do anything about the power of technology? If so, should humans themselves become technology? OR If it is not too late, what would you propose as a “moral compass” to offset procedures like the Pillow Angel  Ethic (Ashley Treatment – Recall Ashley’s limited autonomy) or the future in Never Let Me Go? Is there some universal standard(s) that could be agreed upon by nations? A new Declaration of Human Rights? Give examples.  
OR

Part 2. Dr. Leonard also makes the point that technology is all about making the world “efficient.” Humans and things like Religion that deal with mystery, telling stories, grace, forgiveness etc... aren’t really “efficient” or fact based. Consider the life experiences shared during Beauty Shop and our class film The Human Experience, What would be the role of religion, if any, in an “efficient” technologically driven world?

Tuesday,  January 15th

Exam - 44 minutes

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday -

Beauty Shop Experiences and Transition into Social Justice along with considerations from last week's posts.

Examples of Praxis Project

Gun Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pddlE7K2dTo

Urban Farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dAHFdR-u2I

What if you could trade a paperclip for a house? | Kyle MacDonald | TEDxVienna

This is what happens when you reply to spam email | James Veitch

From Scammer to Saint

Last full week of classes before Exams January 7th to January 11th

During this week before finals for semester courses, we will  proceed with Beauty Shop and an exam review slated for Monday, 1/14. I will distribute a study guide as well as  a prompt for the essay portion of the exam. (See the last item on this blog week). This will be "take home" dealing with "digital ethics." We will spend this week discuss the role of Technology (Social Media, Warfare, and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) on Religion and Ethics.

A Social Life | Award Winning Short Film | Social Media Depression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdVPLj_pIk

A Sci-Fi Short Film : "Sight" - by Sight Systems

7 Of Future Warfare Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1K7tO4YuCI

Future Food | The Menu of 2030

Some humor from The Office

Exam Essay Video

Digital ethics and the future of humans in a connected world | Gerd Leonhard | TEDxBrussels

Ted Talk link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZn0IfOb61U

DUE Wednesday, 1/16 After viewing the Ted Talk, Digital Ethics and the Future of Humans in a Connected World by Gerd Leonhard, consider the following questions. Gerd Leonhard makes the point that “the power of technology has already passed the scope of ethics.” He also states that “without a stronger focus on digital ethics we may well be facing an extinction threat by our own inventions.” 

Part 1. Keeping in mind Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and our case study on the Pillow Angel Ethic (The Ashley Treatment), Do you think it is too late to do anything about the power of technology? If so, should humans themselves become technology? OR If it is not too late, what would you propose as a “moral compass” to offset procedures like the Pillow Angel  Ethic (Ashley Treatment – Recall Ashley’s limited autonomy) or the future in Never Let Me Go? Is there some universal standard(s) that could be agreed upon by nations? A new Declaration of Human Rights? Give examples. 

Part 2. Dr. Leonard also makes the point that technology is all about making the world “efficient.” Humans and things like Religion that deal with mystery, telling stories, grace, forgiveness etc... aren’t really “efficient” or fact based. Consider the life experiences shared during Beauty Shop and our class film The Human Experience, What would be the role of religion, if any, in an “efficient” technologically driven world?

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