Aristotle MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Aristotle? Aristotle is an ENTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - so/sp - 513 in Enneagram, SCOEI in Big 5, LIE in Socionics.
[Some thoughts about Aristotle] ▪️He had multiple books (like Poetics and Rethoric) that established criteria for certain activities. How a lyrical work should be written, how arguments and speeches should be presented. —> I think this is an example of Te’s need for objective standards, a proper procedure and method of doing things adequately. ▪️He was the first one that tried to classify animals (the two groups were red- and blue blooded creatures). But unlike Darwin, who went by the basis of an abstract theory about evolution’s mechanisms (Ti), Aristotle made categories based on observable and concrete properties (Te Se). His reasoning was always based on what’s here and now. ▪️He had a great argument for the existence of a God. He differentiated two types of things: potential and actual. In this theory everything had potential, but to actualize it there had to be an actualizer who already was actualized (that sentence though). In other words, nothing can be actualized without an influencing actuality that transforms it. Which is logical, but it also creates an infinite loop of “could be” and “there is”. His solution was accepting an abstract concept that’s outside these realms and just “is” (pure actuality). —> Now we know that Te is linked to matter and Ti is the one that operates in the abstract, but this is an instance of Te entering abstraction for the sake of results. Aristotle adapted his reasoning so that people can escape this paradox, which is something that defines his work on a large scale. He theorized because it was his way of giving utility and results to people, and make their life easier. ▪️Also, let’s see some quotes: - “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” - “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing” - “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they, who produce them: these only gave them life; those the art of living well” - “He, who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander” - “At his best men is the noblest of animals, separated from law and justice he is the worst” - “We cannot learn without pain”
Biography
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece. Along with Plato, Aristotle is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy", which inherited almost its entire lexicon from his teachings, including problems and methods of inquiry, so influencing almost all forms of knowledge. Little is known for certain about his life.
