Immanuel Kant MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Immanuel Kant? Immanuel Kant is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 6w5 - so/sp - 612 in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, LII in Socionics.
¶ Kant's Fe isn't auxiliary. His Categorical Imperative—the idea that to be moral you must respect the autonomy and rationality of others, and not infringe on it—leads to his strict rule about lying, and how its basically his number one moral constraint. ¶ The problem of inferior Fe comes in with how Kant treated a woman named Maria von Herbert after she was committed. He spread her letters around, turning her into an example against his principles. When people called him out on this, his response was very critical: "Well, she lost her rationality after she went insane, so all moral responsibility is absolved." • So anyone who doesn't meet the criteria of 1. Be rational, and 2. Be autonomous, becomes a 'non-person' and "all moral responsibility is absolved." • Another sign of his inferior Fe was his overly-technical style and excessive concern for consistency. ¶ Besides, his Ni was definitely not dominant. You can find that with a comparison between him and Spinoza (INFJ). — https://www.idrlabs.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/kant_spinoza.png ¶ Ni is driven to form a complete, concise, and ideal image of some compelling revelation that's caught its mind’s eye, using methods like synthesis and summarizing. It then pursues this image. If you don't accept this description, read Myers, Jung, Von Franz, and Van Der Hoop: the literal foundations of this system we're using. • You could say that Ni is "essence-seeking" and "piercing." According to Jung, "The archetype would be … the noumenon of the image which [Ni] perceives and, in perceiving, creates." • But Kant's mode of perception is very indirect. To Kant, the noumenon isn't able to be perceived, because our sensations are subjective, and our intuitions are objective, meaning we color the world with representations of our own consciousness. — https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-spacetime/figure1.jpg • Take Ni types like Jung, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, who've insisted that the idea of a noumenon or something *like* it is attainable and have attained it by reaching and a higher consciousness (Ni). • Also, his synthesis of rationalism and empiricism was not an intuitive synthesis, nor was it technically a "synthesis." It was an understanding based on the consistency between their elements. (See the "analytic-synthetic distinction"). • Finally, one can easily draw the psychological and philosophical distinction between he and Plato. ¶ Not a Te user either. His preference for 'a priori' rationale is explicit; the justifications for his essentials are not on 'a posteriori' grounds. And his philosophy goes against the idea of instrumental value. ¶ Edit: Although it's not often cited that Kant was a kind of skeptic, there are similarities between his Critical Philosophy and Descartes' skepticism. They both have the same form. Descartes' skepticism is instrumental, suggesting secondary Ne—the auxiliary function is there to aid the dominant function. • The INTP's Ne curiously explores hypotheticals to reach a solid foundation (Ti-Si). Aux Ne questions the possibilities of "dogmatic" knowledge to arrive at a secure foundation (Ti-Si). Again, you'll see this in Cartesian philosophy. But you'll also see this in Kantian philosophy. Descartes' method of doubt is formally the same as Kant's Critical Philosophy. "[Kant] sees the primary task of philosophy as criticism rather than justification of knowledge. Criticism, for Kant, meant judging as to the possibilities of knowledge before advancing to knowledge itself." — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_philosophy
Biography
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. His comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy.
