released 1/5/2024

In Leisure, the Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper wrote “The Middle Ages drew a distinction between the understanding as ratio and the understanding as intellectus.” Recognizing the difference between the two is essential to recognizing the nature of human reason, and the difference between the human mind and those tools that exhibit what is commonly called “artificial intelligence.” Are we misled in even using that term? D. C. Schindler — author of The Catholicity of Reason — offers some thoughts.

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