SolitaryWalker
Tenured roisterer
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- Apr 23, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 5w6
- Instinctual Variant
- so/sx
You can "do" ethics as an NT, but "doing" ethics and making your decisions BASED on ethics are very different things. What NTs and NFs do with ethics are rather different.
We'd have to clearly define what we understand for sentimental to be. As far as I am concerned it just means emotional sensitivity. This does not imply being emotionally demonstrative or an inability to think clearly. It is important to draw a distinction between temperament and personality. Sentimentality is a personality trait, not a temperamental. As far as temperament is concerned, all that we can say is that NFs have more propensities to be in tune with emotions.
Not only is Fi about values, Ti can be as well. All Judging functions are, the difference is that the Extroverted Ones have a collectivist mindset and the Introverted---an individualist. Ti/Fi are concerned with the values of the individual and Fe/Te--societal values.
You are right about how NFs and NTs use ethics differently. NFs tend to apply them more, whereas NTs may use the T to find their values but they would make their decisions based on what they think make senses and not what their values tell them would be right.