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Filomena Sacco

doi:10.56583/frp.3264

Published : 2025-12-31

No. 23 (2025)

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Filomena Sacco

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9594-9095

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56583/frp.3264

Abstract

How does university teaching change when a tool produces texts that are indistinguishable from those written by students? This paper addresses this question by interpreting Plato’s Phaedrus as a hermeneutical framework and the Social Doctrine of the Church as a normative framework. The thesis is twofold. Artificial intelligence does not render learning taxonomies obsolete, but it weakens the ability to infer the cognitive process from the product, since plausible texts can be produced without the corresponding mental effort. This gives rise to the need to evaluate the process through documented evidence, discussion of choices, and transparent disclosure of tool usage. Hence, a surprising conclusion emerges. The Dublin Descriptors already require autonomy of judgment, the ability to argue under conditions of incomplete information, and the explicit articulation of reasoning. This gives rise to a “paideia of the artificial,” focused on the ars interrogandi, critical verification, ethical awareness, metacognition, and the competence to refrain from using AI. Attention to the material infrastructure of AI and to cognitive inequalities extends the discourse from individual responsibility to social justice.

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Sacco, F. (2025). Fides, Ratio Et Patria. Studia Toruńskie, (23), 108–130. https://doi.org/10.56583/frp.3264

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Filomena Sacco

frep@aksim.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9594-9095

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Accademia Alfonsiana, Roma Poland

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Filomena Sacco č professoressa associata di teologia morale sociale presso il Pontificio Istituto Accademia Alfonsiana di Roma, professoressa invitata di teologia morale presso l’Universitŕ Pontificia Salesiana di Roma e la Pontificia Facoltŕ Teologica dell’Italia Meridionale Sez. San Luigi di Napoli