This article is a companion to the article on Nietzsche’s Aesthetics of Night. While this article can be read on its own, we recommend that you read the article on Nietzsche before proceeding with this one. By Ryan Smith In my article on Nietzsche’s Aesthetics of Night I reached back to Nietzche’s early aesthetics, from[…] Continue Reading
Category: Psychology
By Sigurd Arild and Ryan Smith A lot of myths about Jung and Psychological Types are flying around in the type community, both offline and online. Most prominently, Jung is often held out by people with a superficial knowledge of typology as having written Psychological Types on the basis of his clinical experience with patients[…] Continue Reading
Interview by Ryan Smith Today we have something out of the ordinary for our readers: an interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and has taught at multiple universities, including Columbia and Rutgers. She has received numerous awards for her[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith “Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing.” – Plato: Seventh Letter §344c When we last left the question of Plato’s Unwritten Doctrine, we had seen that Plato had been confronted with the Third Man Argument during the late part of his career. We had also seen that[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith With regards to Nietzsche’s aesthetics, you probably already know his opposition between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, as featured in The Birth of Tragedy. (Jung examines this same opposition in Psychological Types, identifying the Dionysian with inferior Se, bound up with tertiary Feeling [§235], while the Apollonian is “a state of introspection[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith “[I have meditated] on Plato’s secrecy and sphinx-like nature.” – Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil §28 As far as we know, Plato never told us anything directly. Rather he wrote a series of dialogues from which a certain philosophy and temperament can be noticed by the person who endeavors to read[…] Continue Reading
“No one before Plato [nor anyone] since has managed the extremely difficult art of dramatic debate on philosophic topics with such … fascinating art, aided by the union of dialectical subtlety with mystical yearnings, a subtlety which seems to give a hope to mysticism, and a warrant to transcendentalism.” – G.H. Lewes: Aristotle, Smith, Elder[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith “Einstein … [has] already showed the success in physics of a method which does not proceed from a knowledge of what things are in and by themselves. Einstein has repeatedly shown us that the physicist must learn to swim in a boundless sea of ideas. … [Ideas] which cannot be deduced from[…] Continue Reading
By Eva Gregersen One of the current trends in Jungian typology is “face reading,” that is, the idea that people’s types can be determined by either their physical appearance or their eye movements or facial gestures. At CelebrityTypes, we have been roundly critical of “face reading” (here, here, here, and here). However, we have perhaps[…] Continue Reading