Parmenides MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Parmenides? Parmenides is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - - 541 in Enneagram, RCUEI in Big 5, LII in Socionics.
Ryan Smith (IDRLabs): In the history of Jungian typology, Parmenides has often been taken to be an extreme example of Introverted Thinking and Thinking in general." Marie-Louise von Franz: "[Parmenides is] an absolute demonstration of overtaxed introverted thinking. This has the effect of [him] being unable to assert anything more than that life is an ontological phenomenon of existence! ... This one thought, that 'existence really exists,' expresses a divine plenitude for him ... and he cannot cease reassuring us about such existence for several pages." Edward Hussey: "Like Descartes, Parmenides is trying to find an unassailable starting-point on which something further can be built."
Biography
Parmenides of Elea (fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (Greater Greece, included Southern Italy). He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, which has survived only in fragmentary form.
