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Deep ASI Literacy: Educating for Alignment with Artificial Super Intelligent Systems

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 739-764, August 2025.
Abstract Artificial intelligence companies and researchers are currently working to create Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): AI systems that significantly exceed human problem‐solving speed, power, and precision across the full range of human solvable problems. Some have claimed that achieving ASI — for better or worse — would be the most significant
Nicolas J. Tanchuk
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To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Georgie Newson
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 311-336, April 2025.
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Education towards a reasonable humanism

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 143-161, April 2025.
Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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The Analogy Between Medicine and Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus

Études Platoniciennes
: This paper examines the medicine-rhetoric analogy in Plato, with a specific focus on its deployment in the Gorgias and the Phaedrus. The paper demonstrates how Plato utilizes this analogy to disqualify conventional rhetoric as non-technical and ...
Pedro M. G. Dotto
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Mystic doubt: In search of pure consciousness

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2025.
AbstractTranscendental Meditation (TM) holds that the essence of reality is “pure consciousness.” This piece contrasts three interpretations of their meditative trance: (i) TM doctrine, and (ii) scientific physicalism, (iii) with my own meditative experience.
Olof Ohlson
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Love and Friendship in the Lysis and the Symposium: Human and Divine [PDF]

, 2008
The paper claims that we cannot understand properly Platonic conception of love and friendship unless we read the Lysis in the light of the Symposium and vice verse.
Jinek, Jakub
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Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-Body Debate, 2nd Edition [PDF]

, 2018
Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-Body Debate offers an overview of Platonic-Aristotelian thought on man with a view to considering what its alternative conceptual framework may contribute to the modern debate which is dominated by ...
Ostenfeld, Erik
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Desire: A Theological Reappraisal

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-23, January 2025.
Abstract Desire and its cognates—longing, yearning—do a lot of hard work in modern theology, the work grounded in philosophical precedents going back at least as far as the early German Romantics. These precedents helped to inaugurate the twentieth century explorations of psychoanalysis.
Graham Ward
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Logos, Inspiration, and Self-Motion in Plato’s Phaedrus

Plato
Plato is often seen as the quintessential champion of reason, but many of his dialogues dramatize the insufficiency of certain conceptions of reason for ethical and political life.
Susan Bickford
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