The Lyceum Institute’s Humanitas Technica project returns to the American Catholic Philosophical Association’s annual conference. Below is the abstract around which our discussion panel, “Reintegration of the Human Soul in the Digital Age”, will be ordered. We plan to record the panel.
We are subject to a technologically-mediated fragmentation of our very souls. This fracturing is caused by an extrinsic formal causality affecting our intentional habits away from discernment of the truth. The advent, development, and integration of LLM technologies exacerbates this fragmentation a thousandfold. But neither Luddite rejection nor quiescent capitulation will affect a reintegration of the soul. Through this panel, we aim at identifying the fundamental shifts which are necessary at both a use and a design level to reform our technological paradigm in a manner fitting to and therefore complementary to the nature of the human soul.
To focus our discussion, we wish to take up these three propositions:
- It belongs to human beings by nature to develop technologies for the stewardship of the world and the convenience of their own lives.
- Digital technologies can be good for us as human beings—but they are not currently designed in a way that resolves to our natural good.
- Such resolution requires a re-thinking of how technology is both designed and used.
Reintegration of the Human Soul in the Digital Age
Lyceum Institute
ACPA Satellite Session
31 October 2025 | 4:15–6:00pm
University of Notre
Dame McKenna Hall Room 207
