Famous Intellectuals

[Sniffles]

myself - INFJ

... what..? i'm pretty famous...

LMAO! Pretty clever there.

 

[Falcarius]

I know he's dead, but has anybody classifed Jean-Paul Sartre? I would be very interested in knowing what type he was.

INTP, or I think so anyway.

Christopher Hitchens

What MBTI type does everyone make his brother?

 

[Orangey]

Hmmmm...I think INTP for Sartre is about right.

 

[SillySapienne]

Hmmmm...I think INTP for Sartre is about right.

Agreed

Ok, Jigglypuff: I would say either INTP or INTJ, what say you?!?!

 

[Venom]

what about Sam Harris?

 

[dynamiteninja]

what about Sam Harris?

Pretty much nothing is known about his personal life, so hard to tell. I'd guess ENFJ or INTP however.

 

[Uytuun]

Richard Rorty anyone?

 

[Orangey]

I think maybe INTJ for Rorty. Although the 'I' is pure conjecture, I'm fairly certain on the 'T' and 'J' bits. And I'll say 'N' just because he is a philosopher.

 

[Venom]

Pretty much nothing is known about his personal life, so hard to tell. I'd guess ENFJ or INTP however.

haha total opposites proposed? thatd be like saying: "he seems ENTJ or INFP".

he seems like an E based on the interviews I've seen and how he acts in the more heated debates. His writing is more winding than Dawkins, thats for sure. So I doubt Te. He doesn't seem like an ENTP when you compare him to hitchens, maher etc. ENFP doesnt seem like him from his interviews either. That leaves ENFJ? Then again he could just be a really cool and collected INTP. oh shit...now i see why you did that.

 

[Uytuun]

I think maybe INTJ for Rorty. Although the 'I' is pure conjecture, I'm fairly certain on the 'T' and 'J' bits. And I'll say 'N' just because he is a philosopher.

YouTube - Richard Rorty talks about his childhood

"Hello, I am INTJ."

 

[Sniffles]

How about Gore Vidal and his late long-time rival William F. Buckley Jr.?

Here's photage of their debates with one another in 1968:
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXLTDUPJqsU&feature=related"]Vidal Vs.Buckley: Part 1 (1968)[/youtube]
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzjZrtqCIw&feature=related"]Vidal Vs.Buckley: Part 2 (1968)[/youtube]

And of course any mentioning of these two together must make a reference to this incident:
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8"]William Buckley Vs Gore Vidal[/youtube]
This of course being the famous incident when Buckley told Vidal: "Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I will sock you in your goddamn face, and you will stay plastered."

I'm willing to say ENTP for Buckley

 

[Sniffles]

I'd also like if anybody could type Slavoj Žižek and Jürgen Habermas; without a doubt among the brightest minds that currently exists on the Left:

Some videos:
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9S3vvPe9IM&feature=user"]Slavoj Zizek. Materialism and Theology - 2007 1/8[/youtube]

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtnPSd4rds&feature=related"]Slavoj Zizek - On Belief and Otherness. 2002 1/6[/youtube]

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBl6ALNh18Q"]Jürgen Habermas Interview[/youtube]

 

[dynamiteninja]

haha total opposites proposed? thatd be like saying: "he seems ENTJ or INFP".

he seems like an E based on the interviews I've seen and how he acts in the more heated debates. His writing is more winding than Dawkins, thats for sure. So I doubt Te. He doesn't seem like an ENTP when you compare him to hitchens, maher etc. ENFP doesnt seem like him from his interviews either. That leaves ENFJ? Then again he could just be a really cool and collected INTP. oh shit...now i see why you did that.

I'd say ENFJ however.

Dailymotion - Hugh Hewitt vs Sam Harris, a video from apologetics. Hugh, Hewitt, Sam, Harris, Reason

He comes across as an ENFJ desperately trying to keep his emotions under control. In the video he reminds me of his fellow ENFJ Ben Stiller in so many ways.

 

[the state i am in]

sartre as intp? pretty certain? i could definitely see it, he had less Te direction than a heidegger, etc. less of a hidden Fi goal. more all over the place, etc. what about entp? and what was his relationship with simone beauvoir (infj) like? i need to know...

 

[Lotr246]

Mortimer Adler? Anyone have any guesses to his type? I'd say INxJ. Not sure on the F or T.

 

[MagnaGloriana]

I can fully agree that Stephen Fry is an F, the way he speaks in debates reminds me of how i react and how i have seen other people with strong Fs react although he is much more relaxed when under pressure in front of or by other people (than me) which would make sense given he is a comedian and an extrovert. I know this thread is from 2008 but hey, might as well chip in as i have recently been wondering about Stephen Fry's MBTI type.