Alasdair MacIntyre

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• RTReverence for Tradition

  9 / 10
• CECommunal Embeddedness

  9 / 10
• POPractical Orientation

  8 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• HillelHEARTH

  What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. The rest is commentary.

• Hans-Georg GadamerCARTOGRAPHER

  Understanding happens in the fusion of horizons. Tradition is the live process of meaning.

• Charles TaylorCARTOGRAPHER

  Sources of the self. Malaises of modernity. Authenticity, recognition, the buffered self.

• G.E.M. AnscombeKEEL

  Modern moral philosophy is bankrupt. Return to virtue. Intention shapes action.

• John MbitiHEARTH

  African Religions and Philosophy — "I am because we are."

• Watsuji TetsurōHEARTH

  Climate and culture shape ethics. The self is constituted by relationships, not standalone.

Concepts where Alasdair MacIntyre sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Virtue ethics
  Don't ask "what should I do?" Ask "what kind of person should I become?"
• Justice
  What do we owe each other, and what makes a distribution fair?
• Eudaimonia — the good life
  Aristotle's answer: not pleasure, not virtue alone, but the activity of a whole life lived well.

Side-by-side with other philosophers, dimension by dimension.

• Alasdair MacIntyre VS Charles Taylor

Short exercises in the same tradition as Alasdair MacIntyre's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.

• Anticipating objections →

  For every position, list the three strongest objections — then answer them.