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Jaime Pasquier
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The Character Crisis
Ancient Wisdom, AI, and the Future of Being Human
Can wisdom keep pace with power?
Why the Distance Between Power and Wisdom Is Growing
We inherit almost everything from those who came before us: their tools, their knowledge, their institutions, their wealth. The one thing no one can inherit is character. Every person has to build it from the beginning, one choice at a time. Meanwhile, the Character Gap keeps widening. The Character Crisis argues that it is the problem beneath all our other problems, and that artificial intelligence, by extending human power into the mind itself, is raising the stakes higher than ever.
The Book at Three Scales
Sobre la historia que inspiró Cuarenta y Siete Puñaladas
En el corazón de uno de los escándalos más impactantes de la Francia del siglo XIX se encuentra Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, institutriz de los hijos del duque de Praslin. Amada por los niños y respetada por el duque, Henriette se convierte en el blanco de la desconfianza feroz de la duquesa, cuya conducta cada vez más errática desencadena una cadena de acontecimientos trágicos que marcarán para siempre a toda la familia.
En 1938, la escritora Rachel Field llevó este caso a la literatura con All This and Heaven Too, una novela que se convirtió en un bestseller internacional y que más tarde fue adaptada al cine en una exitosa película protagonizada por Bette Davis y Charles Boyer. Su obra consolidó la imagen de Henriette como una mujer inocente atrapada en un torbellino de celos, poder y obsesión.
Cuarenta y Siete Puñaladas retoma esta historia casi noventa años después, pero desde un ángulo completamente distinto: la voz del propio asesino, el duque Charles de Choiseul-Praslin. A través de su confesión íntima y perturbadora, la novela cuestiona todo lo que creíamos saber sobre el crimen que estremeció a la monarquía francesa y ofrece una mirada más profunda a los impulsos humanos que pueden destruir un imperio desde dentro.
What the Book Asks
This is not a book of predictions about technology.
It is a book about an older question: can anyone build character in an age when power is cheap?
Nietzsche is treated throughout as its most honest opponent, not a villain.
Along the way, the book looks at:
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What the ancients can still teach us about character
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Why intelligence alone has never made anyone good
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What an age of machines asks of the human mind
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What no technology can build for us
The tools are new. The question is two thousand years old.
Explora la intersección de la historia documentada y la leyenda familiar
The Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, a peer of France who had everything except the ability to govern himself, murdered his wife and died of arsenic before he could be tried. A legend in the author's family holds that his death was staged and that he escaped to begin a new life in Nicaragua.
Pasquier treats the legend honestly, as legend. He uses the duke's three attempted escapes, from guilt, from his own identity, and from death, to examine a modern world building technologies that promise the same escapes.
A Note from the Author
I wrote this book for anyone who senses that the questions our machines raise are older than the machines. It is my answer, and my invitation to think it through together.
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The Character Crisis will be published in January 2027.
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