Artificial intelligence is already part of our lives. It is not a mere instrument, but a living environment. How to inhabit responsibly this new cultural environment in which we are all immersed? How to “live in truth” in the AI era? “Exciting opportunities and serious risks” AI, in its many forms, offers “exciting opportunities and serious risks”[1]. It promises, for instance, “a revolution in processes of accumulating, organizing ...

If, as we saw in the last blog, it is rather hazardous to talk of “the personalist paradigm”, this is even more the case with the term “the phenomenological paradigm”. There are two main reasons for this: first, because there is much discussion about what actually constitutes phenomenology; second, because however we understand it, phenomenology operates not with one but with a range of paradigms (the Dasein of Heidegger is a long way fro...

“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. [… it] will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the mos...

Nella III Domenica del Tempo ordinario, il 21 gennaio 2024 Papa Francesco ha dato inizio ufficiamene all’Anno della preghiera. I prossimi mesi ci condurranno al Giubileo del 2025, ed è necessario preparare questo speciale anno di Grazia con una preghiera intensa, fervente, vera e sincera. Un intero anno dedicato non solo a pregare, ma anche a riscoprire il valore della preghiera personale e il suo assoluto bisogno nella vita di ciascuno, della...

In the second semester of 2024-2025 a group of professors and collaborators will offer a transdisciplinary course in the Alphonsian Academy entitled “La persona umana come essere relazionale. Prospettive transdisciplinari”. The course will be comprised of three parts: 1. Introduction 2. Selected Authors and Texts 3. Five Paradigms (personalist, phenomenological, psychological, sociological and theological). This is the second of a series of p...

Living in Truth in the AI Era

Artificial intelligence is already part of our lives. It is not a mere instrument, but a living environment. How to inhabit responsibly this new cultural environment in which we are all immersed? How to “live in truth” in the AI era? “Exciting opportunities and serious risks” AI, in its many forms, offers “exciting opportunities and serious risks”[1]. It promises, for instance, “a revolution in processes of accumulating, o...

III. The Phenomenological Paradigm: Intersubjectivity in Maurice Merleau-Ponty

If, as we saw in the last blog, it is rather hazardous to talk of “the personalist paradigm”, this is even more the case with the term “the phenomenological paradigm”. There are two main reasons for this: first, because there is much discussion about what actually constitutes phenomenology; second, because however we understand it, phenomenology operates not with one but with a range of paradigms (the Dasein of Heidegger is a lo...

Artificial Intelligence & Wisdom

“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. [… it] will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are f...

Vivere l’Anno della Preghiera 2024 sulle orme di sant’Alfonso

Nella III Domenica del Tempo ordinario, il 21 gennaio 2024 Papa Francesco ha dato inizio ufficiamene all’Anno della preghiera. I prossimi mesi ci condurranno al Giubileo del 2025, ed è necessario preparare questo speciale anno di Grazia con una preghiera intensa, fervente, vera e sincera. Un intero anno dedicato non solo a pregare, ma anche a riscoprire il valore della preghiera personale e il suo assoluto bisogno nella vita di ciasc...

The Human Person as a Relational Being: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

In the second semester of 2024-2025 a group of professors and collaborators will offer a transdisciplinary course in the Alphonsian Academy entitled “La persona umana come essere relazionale. Prospettive transdisciplinari”. The course will be comprised of three parts: 1. Introduction 2. Selected Authors and Texts 3. Five Paradigms (personalist, phenomenological, psychological, sociological and theological). This is the second of a s...