Epicurus MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Epicurus? Epicurus is an ESTP personality type in MBTI, 9w8 - sp/sx - 974 in Enneagram, SCUAI in Big 5, SLI in Socionics.
[Contents] 1. Se philosophy 2. Se supported by Ti frameworks 3. Some Fe usage (1) It’s so refreshing to see not only a sensation type philosopher, but also someone who breaks the Se stereotype. He believed in living freely, avoiding pain and fulfilling desire, but with balance and aligned with nature: ➖“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ➖“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.” (No value on Ni) (2) He supported his core views with abstractly logical principles, giving insight to the mechanism of happiness: ➖“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.” ➖“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.” ➖“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.” ➖”The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.” ➖“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.” (3) And finally, some Fe quotes: ➖“It’s not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help” ➖“Of all the things wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship”
Biography
Epicurus (341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded a school of philosophy now called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.
