Oswald Spengler MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Oswald Spengler? Oswald Spengler is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - so/sp - 548 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
I bought Czech translation of Der Untergang des Abendlandes and they united both volumes into one book, it has more than 1500 pages and this book ended up being thicker than Kim Kardashian 🤣 I wonder whether the publisher thought about the fact that someone wants to read it and not just have it displayed on the shelf, because I can't even turn from page to page properly and I have to put it on the table, the book is so very heavy and big, I can't carry it anywhere or lay with it, damn... It book itself is hard to read, even if you already have studied related topics and have some philosophical background, you probably won't understand it, it's like self torture, if you want to read about Spengler it's better to read ABOUT him and interpretations of his work + selection of works (the very same is true for Nietzsche imo). I don't think Spengler was 5w6, it seems to me that 5w4 fits him more. See: The 5w6 Problem Solver is an intellectual who is interested in science, technology, facts and details. They are “analysts” and “catalogers” and excel at dissecting problems to see how they work and find solutions. The 5w4 Iconoclast is a free thinker, or “visionary”, that is out there to overturn established rules and show others a new way of thinking. They tend to be idiosyncratic and individualistic in their investigative methods, with an artistic approach. A 5w6 tends to be objective and systematic in their work. They pay attention to detail and are orientated towards technical knowledge. A 5w6 would be devoted to the methods and findings of science. A 5w4’s reasoning style is more synthetic than analytic. They are system builders. Consequently, a 5w4 scientist might tend to meld science with philosophy. I would recommend you to check authors like Giovanni Gentile (INTJ), Carl Schmitt (INTJ) and Francis Parker Yockey's (INFJ) neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (basically a sequel to Der Untergang des Abendlandes but Yockey keeps his feet on earth in his thoughts, he focus on calling the real world problems, the book i less philosophical and more socially critical).
Biography
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering all of world history. Spengler's model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
