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Famous Philosophers

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Socrates - INTP obviously, afaik even jung said hes an INTP and many others who are professionals with this also type him as INTP.
 

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Kant - INTP
Kierkegaard - INFP
 
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Does anyone want to try the 20th Century Marxists - Adorno, Benjamin, Gramsci, Eagleton, Fromm, etc.?

Or the postmodernists - Baudrillard, Guattari, Deleuze, Foucault?

/philosophy n00b :blush:
 

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Does anyone want to try the 20th Century Marxists - Adorno, Benjamin, Gramsci, Eagleton, Fromm, etc.?
Or the postmodernists - Baudrillard, Guattari, Deleuze, Foucault?
/philosophy n00b :blush:

I'm going to take a guess and say that most Marxists are probably So doms of some sort.
 

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Does anyone want to try the 20th Century Marxists - Adorno, Benjamin, Gramsci, Eagleton, Fromm, etc.?

Or the postmodernists - Baudrillard, Guattari, Deleuze, Foucault?

/philosophy n00b :blush:

Fromm's an interesting case, when I think about it his philosophy is pretty different from even those others mentioned as 20th century philosophers alongside him, I'm reading Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity and its a lot like Fromm's You Shall Be Gods, his analysis of the old testament, they both owed a lot to a much earlier time if you ask me even if they radically reinterpreted the ideas from then.

Its interesting what philosophers come up in threads like these, I'm glad Martin Buber did, although it took longer for Socrates and Aristotle to get a mention than I thought and Nietzsche gets much, much, much more air time these days than I've ever known him to get, its like he's the philosopher of late adolescence and early life now, the rebel, or so he's perceived, which Marx or others once fufilled.
 
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On what grounds can you argue for Marx and Heidegger as INFJ? :dry:
 

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Changed my mind on Nietzsche: INTJ 5w4 > 4w5 > 8w9 so/sx (or sx/so)

Does anyone want to try the 20th Century Marxists - Adorno, Benjamin, Gramsci, Eagleton, Fromm, etc.?

Or the postmodernists - Baudrillard, Guattari, Deleuze, Foucault?

/philosophy n00b :blush:

I'm only slightly familiar with Foucault and have just started reading some of his works; I'd say INTJ is probably somewhat likely.

On what grounds can you argue for Marx and Heidegger as INFJ? :dry:

I think Marx may be INFJ due to function order: Ni vision of how class society works through time (and mostly the philosophy that he got from Hegel) and Ti framework of a comunist society would work, with Fe's 'ZOMGZ capitalism is Evulz! I'll make communist philosophy to save the people!'
 

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Ayn Rand: INTJ 1w9 Sp/So.

Ayn Rand was INTJ 1w9 Sx/So.

"The instinctual energy of this subtype is the most at odds with their dominant Oneness. This subtype is the most intense. They are looking for perfection in everyone they are close to, not just their spouses. They can be very charismatic and engaging. They can also be very persuasive, like the social/sexual. If they have an opinion you are going to hear about it. It’s very important for them to be understood. They are outwardly competitive. Like the social/sexual, they too may be mistyped as other enneatypes. The anger that is under the surface with the other instinctual variants of type One is much more likely to be apparent with this subtype. You always know where you stand with them. They can mimic type Eight's energy in this regard. On the high side, this type is warm and engaging, but on the down side this same energy can bring with it the full brunt of the One's anger and the need to be right."
http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142...er_op=view_page&PAGE_id=14&MMN_position=81:80
 

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I'm going to take a guess and say that most Marxists are probably So doms of some sort.

Considering Marxist criticism involves indetifying the dominant ideologies in a given social context, I can see why you'd think that...

I can't really vouch for their type unless I read them more thoroughly, though. :shrug:
 

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Ayn Rand: INTJ 1w9 Sp/So
John Locke: INFP 5w4 Sp/Sx

Here is part of the type 1 Sp/Sx stacking description:
"On the down side, they can become obsessive-compulsive. They can lose the forest for the trees in attempting to make their homes and environments perfect."

Maybe. But you don't seem to realize, having not read any Rand-related biographies, that Rand allowed her cats to claw up her furniture, among other things such as that. Not such a perfect environment.
 

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Here is part of the type 1 Sp/Sx stacking description:
"On the down side, they can become obsessive-compulsive. They can lose the forest for the trees in attempting to make their homes and environments perfect."

Maybe. But you don't seem to realize, having not read any Rand-related biographies, that Rand allowed her cats to claw up her furniture, among other things such as that. Not such a perfect environment.

Ayn Rand's tritype was 146. Type 1 is obvious. She was also a rather bohemian artist type at 4, and she held certain prejudices as a 6 would (e.g., she didn't trust men with beards).

After coming up with 146, I looked up tritypes on wiki and the 146 is labeled "philosopher."
 

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John Locke: INFP 5w4 Sp/Sx

From what I have breifly read and know of John Locke, I'd type him INTJ. His whole appraoch to his political philosophy was a vision of how government should be set up (Ni) in combination with a system that actually works (Te); in his day, shitty-ass monarchy's were common, and of course they utterly failed to function as decent methods of governing, much inlike the U.S. today, which is based of Locke's social ideals. Also his empirical philosophy and writing style betray that of an Ni dom more so than an Ne user.

Also, what reason do you have for typing him 5w4?
 
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Has Durkheim's type been determined? I saw Weber typed INFJ - that's probable. Given the description of his thought processes by his wife, he seems to have been Ni-dom at least.
 

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From what I have breifly read and know of John Locke, I'd type him INTJ. His whole appraoch to his political philosophy was a vision of how government should be set up (Ni) in combination with a system that actually works (Te); in his day, shitty-ass monarchy's were common, and of course they utterly failed to function as decent methods of governing, much inlike the U.S. today, which is based of Locke's social ideals. Also his empirical philosophy and writing style betray that of an Ni dom more so than an Ne user.

Also, what reason do you have for typing him 5w4?

I think he was either a 5w4 or a 1w9. I don't see any 2, 3, 6, 7 or 8.
 

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I think he was either a 5w4 or a 1w9. I don't see any 2, 3, 6, 7 or 8.

1w9 would have been my guess; although tri-type wise, both 1w9 and 5w4 would work. As for instinct varient though, he's certain an So first from what I can tell (what with creating a whole political framework as to how we should live by).
 

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Hobbes: INTJ)

Are you sure Hobbes is an INTJ? He always seemed like an Si-user to me, since Leviathan was essentially written as a defense of the English monarchy in his time
 

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I'd be curious about Miguel de Unamuno's type, although I realize info on that might not be readily available.
 
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