Baruch Spinoza MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Baruch Spinoza? Baruch Spinoza is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 1w9 - sp/so - 152 in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, LII in Socionics.
¶ Anthony Quinton: "[Spinoza] himself says that his book 'Ethics' is demonstrated in the geometrical manner. … He does set it out with all the familiar apparatus of geometry. Things called axioms and postulates and definitions. … Funny thing is that on the whole, subsequent philosophers haven't taken Spinoza's reasonings frightfully seriously. People don't think of him as a reservoir of interesting arguments, whereas they do think that of Leibniz (INTP)." • Quentin [cont.]: "So perhaps the method, although it's the most obvious feature -- this very explicit and conscious geometrical method is the real stylistically obvious feature of Spinoza's work, is not what's really important. [What's really important] is I suppose, one must say, a *vision*. And this vision of the world as an absolutely unitary entity, any division of which is a mutilation, some sort of misunderstanding." ¶ Bryan Magee: "Something that is in a sense unmodern about [Spinoza and Leibniz], is that they were both profoundly and sophisticatedly versed in mathematics, and indeed Leibniz was a … mathematical physicist of genius. …" > Quentin [in response]: "Despite all that mathematical looking apparatus in Spinoza, he wasn't a mathematician. He had studied a little mathematics, but he's in a completely different world from Leibniz … In Spinoza's case it's rather like the apparatus of pastoral poetry." ¶ Gilles Deleuze: "Spinoza is very very good-natured … and doesn't think at all like a rationalist."
Biography
Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa, 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. Along with René Descartes, Spinoza was a leading philosophical figure of the Dutch Golden Age.
