Famous Philosophers

[Lotr246]

what would you look for as signs in a philosopher that he is an intj or an intp? like zizek and derrida and people who are always changing the signs in their systems would be more likely to be intps (Ti Ne), and gruff tyrannical proto-fascist heideggers, nietzsches, etc would be intjs (Ni Te)? more conceptual vs more systematic? is marx an intj? hegel?

what do you think wittgenstein was? i change my take and go with infj too. his entire life story is never feeling at home in the world. and he was a mystic at heart who hated systematic philosophy. he was poetic. "our language is like an ancient city..."

Yes, I agree Wittgenstein was INFJ. There's an interesting book that details his behavior and its influence on his philosophy. Here's the link: Amazon.com: Autism and Creativity: Is There a Link between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?: Mich Fitzgerald: Books

Although, I'm curious why you said INFP. Could you explain?

 

[ragashree]

I thought I read somewhere that Hobbes was ISTJ or something like that.

Damm, beat me to it - except that it was my own deduction as I hadn't read that before! Definitely TJ, probably I from what we know of his personality, however an Ni primary seems a little unlikely given his strongly mechanistic philosophy, marked disdain for abstract reasoning, and apologism for authoritarian government and maintenance of what equated to the political status quo.

ISTJ fits very well for me.

 

[the state i am in]

need typings:
Jean-Paul Sartre
Mikhail Bakhtin
Pierre Bourdieu
Emmanuelle Levinas
Michel de Certau
Walter Benjamin
Roland Barthes
Michel Serres
Henri Lefebvre
Gaston Bachelard
Stuart Hall
Bruno Latour
Hannah Arendt
Paul Ricouer
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Edmund Husserl
Jurgen Habermas
Erving Goffman
Prigogine
Giorgio Agamben
Guattari
Hardt
Negri
Laclau
Mouffe
Louis Althusser
Antonio Gramsci
Max Horkheimer
Ranciere
Virno
Emile Durkheim
Hans Gadamer
Francois Lyotard
Raymond Williams
Clifford
Frederic Jameson
Herbert Mead (intj)
John Dewey (infp)
Pierce (intp)
Eric Piaget
Vygotsky
Nicolis
Jean Luc Nancy
Donna Harraway
JZ Smith
Victor Turner
Rudolph Otto
Marcel Mauss

 

[the state i am in]

also, here's what i've got so far:
INFJ
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Max Weber
Simone Beauvoir
Martin Buber
Georges Bataille
Claude Levi-Strauss
Alan Watts
Plato

INTJ
Friedrich Nietzsche
Martin Heidegger
George Hegel
Karl Marx
Arthur Shopenhauer
Ferdinand de Saussure
Sigmund Freud
Immanuel Kant
Thomas Hobbes
Heraclitus
Richard Rorty
Richard Dawkins

INTP
Gilles Deleuze
Jacques Derrida
Judith Butler
William James
Albert Einstein
Jean-Paul Sartre
Noam Chomsky
Spinoza
Aristotle
Leibniz

INFP
Soren Kierkegaard
Theodor Adorno
Gregory Bateson
St. Augustine

ENFJ


ENTJ
Margaret Mead

ENFP
Joseph Campbell
Cornel West
Mircea Eliade

ENTP
Michel Foucault
Henri Bergson
Michel de Montaigne
Slavoy Zizek
David Hume

 

[TaylorS]

Could Jeremy Bentham, the brash early Utilitarian stuffy moralists of the time loved to hate, have been an ESTP? His dismissal of the notion of inherent rights as "nonsense on stilts" screams Se and Ti.

 

[juggernaut]

Aristotle was an INTJ, Socrates was an INTP.

 

[Lotr246]

I believe Schopenhauer is INFJ. I think it's been discussed before.

 

[Sentura]

plato was ENFP, kant was INTP

 

[juggernaut]

plato was ENFP, kant was INTP

Why INTP for Kant? Kant was incredibly organized very driven. His writing and what we know of his life strike me as very INTJ.

ENFP sounds very reasonable for Plato though.

 

[run]

INTP
Albert Einstein
Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky was a linguist...

 

[Sentura]

Why INTP for Kant? Kant was incredibly organized very driven. His writing and what we know of his life strike me as very INTJ.

ENFP sounds very reasonable for Plato though.

i don't believe he was dominant intuitive. his beliefs (and his ways of exercising them) remind me of traditional INXP behavior (considering his way the most true and judging everyone else for being wrong). i credit INTJs, perhaps wrongly, for being better than that. in addition, the contrast to ayn rand's philosophy is entirely antagonistic, and i consider rand to be a prime example of INTJ.

 

[Little_Ancient_One]

For what it's worth, Jung also believed Kant to be a hallmark example of an introverted thinking type.

Classics in the History of Psychology -- Jung (1921/1923) Chapter 10

"Just as Darwin might possibly represent the normal extraverted thinking type, so we might point to Kant as a counter-example of the normal introverted thinking type. The former speaks with facts; the latter appeals to the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide fields of objective facts, while Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge in general."

 

[Cimarron]

Just to support it, it wouldn't surprise me if Thomas Hobbes had been ISTJ.

 

[Savage Idealist]

Types of Philosophers

Friedrich Nietzsche: INTJ 5w4 > 8w7 > 4w3 sp/sx
Thomas Hobbes: ISTJ 6w5 > 1w9 > 2w1 so/sp

I'll post more later, feel free to add to the list.

 

[Savage Idealist]

Okay, I think Jean Jacques Rousseau might be INFP. Anyone else have any contributions?

 

[The_World_As_Will]

Arthur Schopenhauer - 5w4 SX/SO INTP ? Very unhealthy one

Hegel - 5w6 SO/SX INF/TP (maybe INTP, loads and loads of Ti)

Marx - 5w6 or 6w5 INTP

Satre - 5w4 so/sx INFJ or just a weird INFP or INTP

Hannah Arendt - 5w4 sx/sp? maybe an so/sx INF or TP

I would agree with your placement of Hobbes and Nietzsche, though eh I'm rather sick of the Nietzsche fanboy-ism,he wasn't that great :/

 

[Savage Idealist]

Arthur Schopenhauer - 5w4 SX/SO INTP ? Very unhealthy one

Hegel - 5w6 SO/SX INF/TP (maybe INTP, loads and loads of Ti)

Marx - 5w6 or 6w5 INTP

Satre - 5w4 so/sx INFJ or just a weird INFP or INTP

Hannah Arendt - 5w4 sx/sp? maybe an so/sx INF or TP

I would agree with your placement of Hobbes and Nietzsche, though eh I'm rather sick of the Nietzsche fanboy-ism,he wasn't that great :/

These are good

Also, I think Nietszche is popular because his writting is very appealing and has excellent style, and his philosophy is often a lot 'cooler' then the that of most other philosophers, with all the 'Ubermensch' and 'Will to Power' stuff.

 

[Hive]

Schopenhauer - INFJ
Marx - INTJ
Camus - INFP (4w3)

 

[The Ü™]

Okay Rosseau was most likely an ISFP, guys.

 

[Savage Idealist]

Okay Rosseau was most likely an ISFP, guys.

ISFP works too he's clearly an Fi dom