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
Category: Psychology
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
By Boye Akinwande and Ryan Smith In type comparisons like these, INFJ and INFP is perhaps the contrast that receives the most attention out of all the 120 possible pairings. If you ask around the internet, you will sometimes get the rather snooty answer that since these two types don’t have any functions in common,[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith When talking about Buddhism, we must first ask: Which version of Buddhism? In this article, the answer is going to be ‘original Buddhism’: We are going to base our answer on the earliest Buddhist texts, that is, from the time when Buddhism was not yet a religion, but a matter of philosophy[…] Continue Reading