Persona Classification Layer
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Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
Alasdair MacIntyre
"After Virtue" — modern moral discourse is the wreckage of an Aristotelian tradition we no longer have
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Alasdair MacIntyre |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | Magisterial |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Alasdair MacIntyre
Historical time as the medium of tradition; finite created time.
Space
Alasdair MacIntyre
Created substantival space.
Matter
Alasdair MacIntyre
Hylomorphic; Aristotelian-Thomistic substrate.
Observer
Alasdair MacIntyre
Plural creaturely observers; the moral self is tradition-constituted. Personal-divine cosmic agency.
Energy
Alasdair MacIntyre
Standard physics.
Information
Alasdair MacIntyre
Personal soul conserved.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
After Virtue's call for "a new and doubtless very different St Benedict" (the "Benedict option," subsequently popularized in narrower form by Rod Dreher) has been read both as a counsel of communal withdrawal and as a call for tradition-constituted resistance from within. MacIntyre has resisted both the most withdrawn and the most triumphalist readings.