The philosophy and the university as utopia: Past and present in front of the 'Artificial Intelligence'

• Autor(a) principal: Mayos Solsona, Gonçal
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências do Estado (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revice/article/view/e46696
• topic: University; Philosophy; Formation; Pastoral power; Artificial intelligence; Universidade; Filosofia; Formação; Poder pastoral; Inteligência artificial; Universidad; Filosofía; Formación; Poder pastoral; Inteligencia artificial

The philosophy, the university and the current model of education show eutopian and positive aspects, but also unrealistic and even negative ones. We will briefly analyse one or the other. For example, philosophy has skilfully used the myth but has also given in to it. The university is born as a 'universe' of those freely dedicated to the reflective life but it also relapses into hierarchical dogmatism and 'zero-point hybris'. Under the guidance first of the Church and then of the State, philosophy and the university reconfigured themselves in conflict with theology and the technosciences. Their aim was first and foremost to 'govern people' through 'pastoral power' (Foucault) and 'anthropotechnics' (Sloterdijk), but they increasingly drifted towards the market and instrumental reason and knowledge. Today even leisure and tourism have become productive and a source of 'human capital'. That is why we must remember that other philosophies, universities and formations are possible, and continue to be key to maintaining the 'cement of the polis' (Aristotle). Moreover, 'artificial intelligence' threatens to radically transform them, perhaps by introducing a hegemonically non-human 'imaginary' (Harari). It would be a more resounding disruption than the 'death of God'... the death of the human?