Alasdair MacIntyreIncoming LinksFebruary 22nd, 2021📙 After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre;February 24th, 2021It might seem overblown, but I'm wondering if our Twitter network is doing something like what Alasdair MacIntyre describes in the last paragraph of 📙 After Virtue:It's not surprising to find distaste for Alasdair MacIntyre in this rationalist community, and indeed, as @aphercotropist has pointed out, there are at least three posts on Slate Star Codex denouncing 📙 After Virtue as not only wrong and impractical but nonsensical. Why doesn't Scott Alexander like Alasdair MacIntyre?February 26th, 2021Narrative in Alasdair MacIntyre's 📙 After VirtueFebruary 27th, 2021This way of thinking makes me interested in reading another book of Alasdair MacIntyre's, namely 📙 Dependent Rational Animals, which I believe is his attempt to grapple with Aristotle's views on the relationship between Biology and Teleology.February 28th, 2021In 📙 After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre points out that we have a double nature of trying to render the outer world predictable while preserving our own unpredictability.IdeaAlasdair MacIntyre calls for rebuilding post-Darwinian teleology.March 29th, 2021Of course I can't read this without thinking immediately about 📙 After Virtue, and it gives richness and salience to Alasdair MacIntyre's critique of Modernity. Lewis goes on:March 3rd, 2021Perhaps it is true as Alasdair MacIntyre says that to be a person today is to be somehow adrift. There are definitely areas of life and ethical questions where the available cultural wisdom seems inadequately coherent, so that young people tasked with creating their adult lives find themselves confused.March 9th, 2021Through Mead’s sensitivity to the ways in which sociality informs self development his work can complement well-known narrative accounts of the self in thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor. *📙 After VirtueAuthor: Alasdair MacIntyre📙 Dependent Rational AnimalsAuthor: Alasdair MacIntyre