1 LET ALL THINGS PERISH UTTERLY. 2 It is the same to me where I begin for to that place I shall return. 3 The ignorant call the two ways light and night. They are not. They are doxa and alatheia. Light and night are doxa; alatheia beyond both. …This article requires site membership. If[…] Continue Reading
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By Ryan Smith 4.1 Gaze upon things which, though far off, are still firmly present to the mind 4.2 For you shall not sever being from holding fast to being 4.3 For it neither scatters itself everywhere, in every way throughout the cosmos, 4.4 Nor gathers itself together. This fragment asserts that the primordial One[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith 3.1 For it is the same thing that can be thought of and that can be. This fragment has traditionally been used to justify numerous accounts of Parmenides as a logician who dabbled in semiotics. One classical interpretation goes so far as to assert that Parmenides intended to bar us from speaking[…] Continue Reading
By Boye Akinwande INTJs and INFJs share the function arrangement of dominant introverted intuition and inferior extroverted sensation. Both types are less cognizant of the momentary and immediately tangible aspects of reality than they are of questioning the ‘givens’ that exist at the root of reality. Indeed, as Isabel Myers has said of them, they[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith In this article, I am going to continue our tour of themes in the thought of Heraclitus. As I mentioned in the prior installment, many of Heraclitus’ themes cannot be analyzed dispassionately, but must be entered into with all one’s being. To really understand Heraclitus, one must allow him to alter one’s[…] Continue Reading
Lee Morgan is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Lee’s piece represents his own insights and type assessments and not necessarily those of the site. By Lee Morgan When Nietzsche declared the death of God, what sort of statement was he making? What evidence did he have,[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith Heraclitus is arguably the most important philosopher with regards to Jungian typology.[1] At the very least, if one wishes to approach typology from a function-based perspective (as opposed to a trait, dichotomy, or temperament-based one), there is no getting around Heraclitus. In fact, a lot of the methodical errors surrounding the function-based[…] Continue Reading
With the events of 2015 and 2016, it is no exaggeration to say that the traditional political order of Western democracies is being shaken to its core. Jonathan Haidt is a professor at New York University. With more than 30,000 citations from other scholars, he is arguably the most prominent social scientist at work in[…] Continue Reading
Boye Akinwande is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As always with guest writers on the site, Akinwande’s own insights and assessments are his own and not necessarily the same as those of the site. In this article, Akinwande elaborates on the concept of function axes and how to illustrate their opposition, mirroring, and tension. By Boye Akinwande This is[…] Continue Reading
1: There was a legend in antiquity that Plato plagiarized Pythagorean teachings: A big scandal in antiquity was the rumor that Plato purchased documents containing secret Pythagorean teachings and passed them off as his own insights without divulging his sources. Schrodinger: Nature and the Greeks and Science and Humanism (Cambridge University Press 1996) p. 34n1[…] Continue Reading