Augustine was an INFP...most of his work was about the personal Christian values rather than figuring problems out for the sake of figuring them out..
I disagree. The Christian values
were the problems he was trying to figure out - he was raised as a pagan, remember, and trying to deal with the concepts and how they applied to him and life in general. The OTT, emotive style of writing was just the fashionable and expected style of the time. If you whittle out of it all the bits and pieces that are stock phrases from the period's literature, you get a different picture. And by the time he was writing his
Confessions, he was much older, and NT's over a certain age are often characterised by remorse over realisation of their thoughtless (in the sense of thoughtlessness about other people's feelings and needs), arrogant and selfish behaviour in youth.
Aquinas was an INFJ..His life is a textbook example of how the mind went in service to the heart..he never had a problem talking about Feelings and quite often enjoyed it...even when he was young..very uncommon of an NT..
Again I disagree. He devoted a lot of his time to picking apart the various philosophical viewpoints of his day, and you're forgetting also that what today is classified as 'arts', religious and spiritual stuff associated with NF-ness, in his day, that
was science and philosophy. His approach to religion was very much concerned with theology and philosophy, which is what the NT's of his day did - the NF's were more concerned with the charitable side of things, like St Francis of Assisi and his lepers, beggars, animals etc - the application of the theology and its relevance to human lives were what NF's did. Aquinas
thought and
wrote.
I dont know much about Averroes..but why is he an ENTP instead of INTP..He didnt seem to be actively involved in his visions to change the world..and wanst too big into making philosophy practical..he seemed like a detached problem solver who'd be satisfied with just knowing the truth..
Yes to the last part, but no to not being actively involved. He was very active, very energetic and travelled all over the place spreading and promoting his philosophies, meeting with others, influencing and making changes in society. If he were alive today, I cannot imagine him being content to just write about his ideas and put them onto websites. He'd be the kind of person like me, who
needs to go out and DO things, bring them face to face with other people and take action. Seems to me he wrote about things from experience, after having thought about them, refined them in the crucible of practice and then realised that some writing was necessary. INTP's tend to do it the other way around and to put experience at a much lower premium than ENTP's.