Category: Psychology

By Ryan Smith In Part 1 of this series, we saw that: Jung, when asked in public, always said he was a Ti (ITP) type. There is a “secret” seminar where Jung identifies his Intuition as “superior.” Some theorists take this to mean that Jung secretly identified as an Ni (INJ) type. Jung was not[…] Continue Reading

By Ryan Smith Now that we have reconstructed the contents of the Unwritten Doctrine and examined the paradox of how the One can be both unconditioned and limited at the same time, it remains for us to examine whether the Unwritten Doctrine actually refutes the Third Man Argument, as it was ostensibly meant to do.[…] Continue Reading

Among contemporary Buddhist schools, many lay claim to be the authentic heirs of the teaching of the Buddha. Yet there is considerable variety among the Buddhist schools in precepts, ethics and philosophy. As one scholar of Buddhism has said, it is as if the whole corpus of philosophy has been gone through in Buddhist form.[…] Continue Reading

By Boye Akinwande ISTPs and INTPs are dominant introverted thinking types. Whether they have introverted or extroverted thinking, all thinking types tend to have a strong proclivity for impersonal analysis and discerning the mechanics governing phenomena (as opposed to how they feel or appear to our sentiments). However, where the extroverted thinking types orient their[…] Continue Reading

Michael Goist is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. While at the time of this writing, Beethoven is not yet added to the site, Goist here states his case for why Beethoven is INFP (in contradistinction to Lawrence Bevir’s more conceptual allusion to Beethoven as a possible INTJ here). This article does not reflect the[…] Continue Reading

By Ryan Smith 5.1 It is the same to me, 5.2 From where I begin, for to there I shall come back again. This fragment expands upon the meaning of fragments 2, 3, and 4. The assertion is that since the One is continuous and devoid of all partitions (8.4-6), there is no optimal “point”[…] Continue Reading

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

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