Until recently, because people have a mind, they could believe they were something special. Then came artificial intelligence. The fact that it solves many tasks better than we do was both a promise and an insult to humanity: that would be the fourth insult since the Copernican turn, Darwin's theory of evolution and Freud's discovery of the unconscious. Have the ideas of humanism outlived themselves? Rüdiger Safranski reminds us that, unlike algorithms, humans have consciousness, perceive emotions, can think about themselves and can decide freely. These are major topics in philosophy. It sets benchmarks that will help us to find our place in the world in the future.

Biography

Rüdiger Safranski, born in 1945, philosopher and writer, lives in Berlin. He has published biographies of E. T. A. Hoffmann, Schopenhauer and Heidegger as well as the great philosophical essay "How Much Truth Does Man Need? On the Conceivable and Liveable". Rüdiger Safranski received the "WELT Literature Prize" and the "Friedrich Hölderlin Prize" in 2006, the "Corine" International Book Prize, category Honorary Award of the Bavarian Prime Minister for his life's work in 2009, and the "Josef Pieper Prize", the "Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation" for his "brilliant" biographies and the "Thomas Mann Prize" in 2014.

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