Jacob Phillips

Professor of Systematic Theology. Hierarchical communitarianism. 'The gentlest face of Integralism' - Worker and Parasite pod.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

The discourse about Ayaan Hirsi Ali and civilisational Christianity made me think back to that devastatingly unwelcome moment when I realised not only that I believed in God, but I was even going to have to seek baptism, for @TheCriticMag.
https://t.co/NDknZqHx7M

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

Tonight at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane!

[Mark Lambert - Catholic Unscripted Podcast @AuditeInsulae]

This is excellent, concise & profound https://t.co/95HmYp8bIt

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@nerissimo I can't guarantee not to appear as an AI hologram.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

If anyone isn't yet worn down with Magnifica Humanitas fatigue:

https://t.co/KqStK8nn85

[thoughtfully catholic @stevhep]

Basically, if you are using, AI whether you are a tech bro or just a tech user, then think about what you are going to do before you do it, taking as the first principle for your thought the infinite value and mysterious nature of the human person expressed to perfection in Jesus

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@Sean_Walsh_1967 Thank you Sean.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@upheartened My pleasure!

[Catholic Truth Society @CTSpublishers]

What does Pope Leo really say about Artificial Intelligence in 'Magnifica Humanitas'? Why did the Pope choose AI as the subject of his first encyclical? And Is Artificial Intelligence a threat to human dignity?

Don't miss the CTS Roundtable discussion on 'Magnifica Humanitas', Pope Leo’s groundbreaking encyclical on Artificial Intelligence, technology and the future of humanity: https://t.co/Zh2I4gVcoc

@DomSrStJoseph @Counteredlogos

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

It was great to participate in this 3 part @CTSpublishers round table on Magnifica Humanitas with two excellent guests and a wonderful host.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@Rachel_deSouza Wonderful.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

https://t.co/PphI7QRNpU

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

It was great to participate in this 3 part @CTSpublishers round table on Magnifica Humanitas with two excellent guests and a wonderful host.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@caseybogs I don't much care for these examples either, but what you describe would involve a Pope having infallibility in everything he says, and even over what others do, neither of which have ever been a part of that same Faith we both want him to protect.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

The predictable but still sad reality is that there's a whole class of people out there who, after Pope Francis, are never going to be able to appreciate any Pope again - unless he's made in exactly their image (which he won't be).

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@Sean_Walsh_1967 Lol. I've noticed this usage a lot. It speaks volumes, as the current paradigm is such a mess because there's not allowed to be any sense of a "normal" baseline, so health is always ill-health.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

For all the wasted words and cringe attempts to help young people with their mental 'elf, maybe this passing mention of the consequences of evaluating people as if they're mere machines actually bears much promise.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

From the Marian Franciscans' wonderful pilgrimage from Canterbury to Ramsgate last year - an annual event that will be sorely missed.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@OTSOTA @Pontifex I'll take that as a 'no', then.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

I can't think of a much better example of the schizophrenic contradictions of a particular type of Catholic that one of them literally has written an alternative encyclical on Substack which is being presented as an unproblematic expression of fidelity and orthodoxy to the Faith.

[Michael Shindler @MichaelShindler]

Overheard on the Metro: "Anyone can write an encyclical. You don't have to be the pope. I wrote one yesterday."

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

Again, you cannot experience love, compassion, responsibility, friendship in their proper human sense unless you yourself are subject to the same limitations, vulnerabilities, and perspectival outlook of the beloved.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

But if an embodied AI (robot) were raised (continually learning in context) among humans, exhibiting every conceivable sign of love, compassion, responsibility, and friendship, it wouldn't actually be those things because those things require connaturality by definition.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

This is where I am at.

[Damian Thompson @holysmoke]

Does anyone else feel that we could ease off on the Catholic civil war for a bit? Leo is not ideal for traditionalists but he’s not pushing the same anarchic ideas – or relying on the same opportunistic ideologues – as Francis. Look at how cross Massimo Faggioli is at this pope’s more conventional understanding of synodality. We’re supposed to be upset that Leo blessed a block of ice or extended full ecumenical courtesy to Sarah Mullally – but he hasn’t moved an inch towards recognising Anglican orders (something Francis flirted with), he’s definitely not interested in women deacons, he’s not enforcing TC with any enthusiasm, and his Christ-centric preaching is far removed from the alarming indifferentism of Francis’s crazier outbursts. No sinister weirdos have been parachuted into major sees even if, like most popes, Leo is in no hurry to reshuffle his cabinet. As for the SSPX, maybe he should have met them but you have to understand how fed up the Vatican has been with the endless fruitless negotiations over the years and the threat to ordain illicit bishops, now being carried out, just strikes them as blackmail. Outside social media, mainstream trads (including their cardinal allies) feel insulted by the SSPX and especially the aggressive hints that NO Masses may be invalid. What about the Germans, say commentators. Well, Leo seems less likely to indulge them than Francis, and it’s significant that they’ve had to postpone or call off their grandiose plan for a Synodal assembly or whatever they call it. As for the specific subject of gay blessings, Leo appears to have satisfied the Copts that FS is no longer to be taken seriously. Yes, loony things still happen in Europe but that’s been going on for 50 years. So the melodramatic statements of ultra-trads now seem less appropriate than they might have been under Francis, whose chaotic reign is passing into history – not fast enough, but the direction of travel is not one that the Synodal faction, so influential five years ago, would have chosen. And to cap it all we’ve just had a thoughtful encyclical which impressed most Catholic observers. OK. End of sermon. I’m anticipating the scorn from the usual suspects but it won’t keep me awake tonight.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@OTSOTA @Pontifex You weren't too keen then?