Magnifica humanitas (Annotated) with Rerum novarum: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence - Couverture souple

XIV, Pope Leo; XIII, Pope Leo

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798198624412

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

This annotated edition includes:

• Scholarly introduction tracing 135 years of Catholic social teaching
• Complete text of Rerum Novarum as historical companion text
• Full editorial apparatus with theological and historical context

On May 15, 1891, Pope Leo XIII signed Rerum Novarum and founded the tradition of modern Catholic social teaching. On May 15, 2026, Pope Leo XIV signed Magnifica Humanitas — on the same date, bearing the same name, responding to the same question: what does the Church owe to those whose work and dignity are being transformed by forces larger than themselves?

The first industrial revolution gave the world the factory, the wage contract, and the destruction of the guild system. Leo XIII responded with the document that became the Magna Carta of Catholic social action. The second industrial revolution is giving the world artificial intelligence, algorithmic management, and the automation of cognitive labor at a scale the nineteenth century could not have imagined. Leo XIV has responded in kind.

This edition brings the two documents together for the first time. Magnifica Humanitas addresses the questions that the spread of AI has made unavoidable: what happens to work when cognitive tasks can be automated at scale; how truth and democratic deliberation survive in an environment of synthetic media; whether the concentration of AI capability in a handful of corporations is compatible with justice; and what it means to protect human dignity when systems of increasing power are designed without it as a primary consideration.

Rerum Novarum accompanies it as the document Leo XIV consciously invoked when choosing his papal name — the historical root of everything Magnifica Humanitas builds upon.

When Leo XIV presented this encyclical to the world, he broke with all precedent by attending the press conference in person, alongside theologians,

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798198624412
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 217
• Éditeur: Martin Edward P.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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