Karl Popper MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Karl Popper? Karl Popper is an ENTP personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - so/sp - 548 in Enneagram, SCUEI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
His philosophy is deeply reactive, and his focus on the rejection of absolutes points to 6 rather than 5, a 5 would simply refrain from it. Edit: why the downvotes? At least provide a reason. From Chestnut: "Sixes can be suspicious of and even openly rebellious toward authority figures, while Fives can follow authorities if they choose to (and if they don’t, they may go against the established authority in a more quiet, less noticeable way)". If we look at his work he had a constant struggle against what he saw as unscientific ideology, which he feared would be a source of authoritarism and harmful repression. This is closer to the 6's focus on authority and social forces rather than the intellectualization and the need of hoarding resources of the 5.
Biography
Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FBA FRS (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-born British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with critical rationalism, namely "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy". In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he believed made a flourishing open society possible. His political philosophy embraced ideas from major democratic political ideologies, including socialism/social democracy, libertarianism/classical liberalism and conservatism, and attempted to reconcile them.
