Astral Codex Ten

Alasdair MacIntyre

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Alasdair MacIntyre

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Alasdair MacIntyre is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 24, 2022 and May 30, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “he inevitably gushes about Alasdair MacIntyre”; “Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique of modernity”. It most often appears alongside Steven Pinker, Abolitionist, AntiNazi.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: May 24, 2022
  • Last seen: May 30, 2025

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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.

California Gubernatorial Candidates From Z to Z
May 24, 2022 · Original source
He also has a blog, where he inevitably gushes about Alasdair MacIntyre and complains about Steven Pinker.
Inline links: a blog
Bayes For Everyone
May 30, 2025 · Original source
If this sounds like some sort of esoteric, speculative division, I’m doing a bad job explaining it. I mean to gesture at an idea that smart people have been pointing at for centuries. It’s at least similar to Nietzsche’s “Dionysian” vs. “Apollonian” modes, and to Claude Lévi-Strauss’s “the bricoleur” vs. “the engineer”, and to Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique of modernity. It’s near the heart of what Iain McGilchrist is describing in The Master and His Emissary. I think it’s the same thing as Erik Hoel’s “intrinsic” vs. “extrinsic” perspectives? It overlaps a lot with Kahneman’s “System 1” and “System 2” and with Jonathan Haidt’s “the elephant” and “the rider”. Heck, the lack of clarity on this divide is what makes Jordan Peterson’s dialogues with atheists so frustrating.