The Great Divorce
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The Great Divorce is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 29, 2021 and April 20, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “It reminds me of C.S. Lewis - especially The Great Divorce, whose conceit was”; ""-“The Great Divorce,” C.S. Lewis”. It most often appears alongside C.S. Lewis, A.E. Waite, Adlerian psychology.
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- Category: Books
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 29, 2021
- Last seen: April 20, 2022
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- C.S. Lewis (2 shared issues)
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- A.E. Waite (1 shared issues)
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- Adlerian psychology (1 shared issues)
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- AL (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Power (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- Andrew Jackson (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotle (1 shared issues)
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- Barack Obama (1 shared issues)
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- Bayes’ Rule (1 shared issues)
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- being-a-good-person training (1 shared issues)
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- Bethany Brookshire (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I’m mentioning this story in particular because because of how it straddles the border between “rationality training” and “being-a-good-person training”. It reminds me of C.S. Lewis - especially The Great Divorce, whose conceit was that the damned could leave Hell for Heaven at any time, but mostly didn’t, because it would require them to admit that they had been wrong. I think Julia thinks of rationality and goodness as two related skills: both involve using healthy long-term coping strategies instead of narcissistic short-term ones.
-"The Great Divorce," C.S. Lewis