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The election of Pope Leo XIV has refocused attention once again on the mega-ethical issue of our time — “Who and what is a human being?” Virtually every important moral and ethical issue confronting human society in the 21st century is impacted profoundly by the answers offered to that question.
In many ways, the question of who and what is a human being has been a critical moral question in every culture or civilization in which humanity has found itself, however ancient or modern. As humanity has “progressed” through the 21st century, however, revolutionary technical breakthroughs typified by Artificial Intelligence (AI) have added complications and urgency to the frequency and fervor with which the question is being asked.
The former Catholic Cardinal, now known as Pope Leo XIV, chose that particular predecessor’s name because of Pope Leo XIII’s (1878-1903) impressive influence on these issues. Pope Leo XIV is reportedly gravely concerned by modern assaults on the dignity of human personhood (especially AI) and chose this particular name because of Pope Leo XIII’s tremendous influence in criticizing both communism and unbridled capitalism in his overwhelmingly influential and prescient encyclical Rerum Novarum(1891). Leo XIII used this encyclical to lay the foundation for Roman Catholic “social justice.”
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The election of Pope Leo XIV has refocused attention once again on the mega-ethical issue of our time — “Who and what is a human being?” Virtually every important moral and ethical issue confronting human society in the 21st century is impacted profoundly by the answers offered to that question.
In many ways, the question of who and what is a human being has been a critical moral question in every culture or civilization in which humanity has found itself, however ancient or modern. As humanity has “progressed” through the 21st century, however, revolutionary technical breakthroughs typified by Artificial Intelligence (AI) have added complications and urgency to the frequency and fervor with which the question is being asked.
The former Catholic Cardinal, now known as Pope Leo XIV, chose that particular predecessor’s name because of Pope Leo XIII’s (1878-1903) impressive influence on these issues. Pope Leo XIV is reportedly gravely concerned by modern assaults on the dignity of human personhood (especially AI) and chose this particular name because of Pope Leo XIII’s tremendous influence in criticizing both communism and unbridled capitalism in his overwhelmingly influential and prescient encyclical Rerum Novarum(1891). Leo XIII used this encyclical to lay the foundation for Roman Catholic “social justice.”
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Pope Leo XIV, AI and who and what is a human being?
The election of Pope Leo XIV has refocused attention once again on the mega ethical issue of our time Who and what is a human being
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