Paracelsus MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Paracelsus? Paracelsus is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sx/sp - 548 in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
"Paracelsus sought a universal knowledge that was not found in books or faculties." Ti/Fe universalism > Te/Fi appeals to objective data and sources from authority. To add, he rejected naturalist and empiricist philosophers such as Aristotle and burned the books of classical figures in medicine such as Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Galen. Paracelsus' Fe was not in the inferior position, however. He spoke in the national language of German during his position as the town physician of Basel, Switzerland when the accepted language of the profession was Latin which he claimed was "self-referential and obscure" and only served to hide medical knowledge from the collective. Professor Strunz: "His was a mind of mighty features whose rare maturity converted the stating of scientific problems into warm human terms." Fe cares to be understood and unlike Te adds the extra layer of emotional sentiment to find a "common ground" in the realm of people rather than facts. Fe also blurs the line of individual differences while Te asserts hierarchical oligarchy. Paracelsus proposed that the nature of objects were not natural but supernatural, and that they were a liaison with God. Through science and medicine, God's message could then be understood. This is evidence of Ni dominance and repressed Se, in which the objects themselves are not perceived for what they are denotatively, but are extracted for their transcendent, connotative qualities. Ni will seek to go beyond what the objective stimulus presents but rather what it entails. The Prognostications is also extremely reminiscent of Nietzsche's aphoristic and prophetic writings, in which Paraclesus predicts events such as ecclesiastical affairs, social-political upheavals, and other mundanities with symbolic and cryptic language. Have a look for yourself: "What is it, or what does it help you that ye combine together and do not consider that ye are contrary in soul and heart? Behold only how ye are externally marked by your garments, even so are ye also internally. Ye should not be as beasts but as men, but as ye are not so, he will rule you that is above you, of whom stands written: give unto him what to him belongs. For no bestial reason is permanent, only that reason remaineth which is destined and ordained by God. This falleth in due time, thus is your council destroyed."
Biography
Paracelsus (1493/94 – 24 September 1541), born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German Renaissance. He was a pioneer in several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. He is credited as the "father of toxicology". He also had a substantial impact as a prophet or diviner, his "Prognostications" being studied by Rosicrucians in the 1700s. Paracelsianism is the early modern medical movement inspired by the study of his works.
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