These are just rough ideas. Anybody who knows more about typing may want to chime in.
Karl Marx- INTJ
He is definitely Fi, rather than Fe (compare his 1844 Manuscripts with Trotsky's essay on proletarian culture-- I would say Trotsky is Fe).
That means he uses Te, which is consistent with his materialist dialectic-- he is concerned with the organization of existent, material society. Hegel might be more Ti. The Te is probably higher up than the Fi.
The Ni is a bit trickier, but I can see how it would be necessary for some of his insights. Hell, all of Capital begins with he commodity and the antagonism of use and exchange value. Idk
Jean-Paul Sartre- INFP?
Obsession with authenticity, the human condition, angst/nausea all profoundly Fi. Sartre is practically the anti-Fe, although this might become somewhat problematic in his later writings?
Actually, the nausea bit seems like a relationship between Fi and Si.
Even his most dense, academic work is more F than T-- consider Being and Nothingness: the waiter who plays too well at being a waiter; shame and the gaze; his rejection of solipsism.
Ne also appears in his understanding of the gaze, his interpretation of the Master-Slave relation, his view of human relations.
Albert Camus- INFP
This one's pretty easy. The Stranger is basically just Fi vomited onto a page (not meant as a critique). Theoretical work like The Myth of Sisyphus, no less so.
Walter Benjamin- INFP???
This is a really tough one. He incorporates elements of Jewish mysticism, although he subjugates these to a general Marxist framework. Many of his writings are on poetry and theater, and unlike many philosophers, he does not neglect the human, emotional side to the things he writes. He writes about the 'aura', the gaze, and what is lost from art in the age of technical reproducibility, as well as what is to be gained. He is committed to a Marxist ethics, but in a far less rigid, dogmatic way than many, and his Arcades Project is all about subjective experience of the 19th century, commodification, and alienation.
He he is definitely Ne-- his writings can be all over the place, drawing together different strands. I'm pretty sure he's more feeling than thinking. I suppose he could be ENFP
Aristotle-
Okay, so most immediately, it seems that Aristotle's hylomorphism and biological/political empirical study is more Te, where Plato's theory of Forms and the divided line are more Ti. This is consistent with ethics, where Plato's Republic seems based on Fe, and Aristotle's focus on character, voluntarism, and individual happiness seems to spring more from Fi.
Now, it is between Ne/Ni and Se/Si. I think there is strong evidence for Ne and Si. The former appears in all of his writings-- it is the way in which he consistently outlines various proposed and unproposed potential solutions to a problem. He begins many of his treatises with aporiai, or impasses, and solutions that have been offered by Pythagoras, Plato, etc. Further Ne indicators include his focus on the interrelatedness of things; he is truly a dialectician, in that his formal cause or entelecheia is always unifying parts and aspects that function together to form a totality.
Aristotle's understanding of the senses, as laid out in De Anima, appears to be more Si than Se. This I'm less confident about, but I'm sufficiently sure of Ne to assert that he must have Si.
so that means he's either *STJ or *NFP.
If anybody would like to type the following, I'd be interested:
Spinoza, Adorno, Lenin, Lukacs, Hegel, Heraclitus, Feuerbach, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer....
Karl Marx- INTJ
He is definitely Fi, rather than Fe (compare his 1844 Manuscripts with Trotsky's essay on proletarian culture-- I would say Trotsky is Fe).
That means he uses Te, which is consistent with his materialist dialectic-- he is concerned with the organization of existent, material society. Hegel might be more Ti. The Te is probably higher up than the Fi.
The Ni is a bit trickier, but I can see how it would be necessary for some of his insights. Hell, all of Capital begins with he commodity and the antagonism of use and exchange value. Idk
Jean-Paul Sartre- INFP?
Obsession with authenticity, the human condition, angst/nausea all profoundly Fi. Sartre is practically the anti-Fe, although this might become somewhat problematic in his later writings?
Actually, the nausea bit seems like a relationship between Fi and Si.
Even his most dense, academic work is more F than T-- consider Being and Nothingness: the waiter who plays too well at being a waiter; shame and the gaze; his rejection of solipsism.
Ne also appears in his understanding of the gaze, his interpretation of the Master-Slave relation, his view of human relations.
Albert Camus- INFP
This one's pretty easy. The Stranger is basically just Fi vomited onto a page (not meant as a critique). Theoretical work like The Myth of Sisyphus, no less so.
Walter Benjamin- INFP???
This is a really tough one. He incorporates elements of Jewish mysticism, although he subjugates these to a general Marxist framework. Many of his writings are on poetry and theater, and unlike many philosophers, he does not neglect the human, emotional side to the things he writes. He writes about the 'aura', the gaze, and what is lost from art in the age of technical reproducibility, as well as what is to be gained. He is committed to a Marxist ethics, but in a far less rigid, dogmatic way than many, and his Arcades Project is all about subjective experience of the 19th century, commodification, and alienation.
He he is definitely Ne-- his writings can be all over the place, drawing together different strands. I'm pretty sure he's more feeling than thinking. I suppose he could be ENFP
Aristotle-
Okay, so most immediately, it seems that Aristotle's hylomorphism and biological/political empirical study is more Te, where Plato's theory of Forms and the divided line are more Ti. This is consistent with ethics, where Plato's Republic seems based on Fe, and Aristotle's focus on character, voluntarism, and individual happiness seems to spring more from Fi.
Now, it is between Ne/Ni and Se/Si. I think there is strong evidence for Ne and Si. The former appears in all of his writings-- it is the way in which he consistently outlines various proposed and unproposed potential solutions to a problem. He begins many of his treatises with aporiai, or impasses, and solutions that have been offered by Pythagoras, Plato, etc. Further Ne indicators include his focus on the interrelatedness of things; he is truly a dialectician, in that his formal cause or entelecheia is always unifying parts and aspects that function together to form a totality.
Aristotle's understanding of the senses, as laid out in De Anima, appears to be more Si than Se. This I'm less confident about, but I'm sufficiently sure of Ne to assert that he must have Si.
so that means he's either *STJ or *NFP.
If anybody would like to type the following, I'd be interested:
Spinoza, Adorno, Lenin, Lukacs, Hegel, Heraclitus, Feuerbach, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer....
