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.
I'm currently in the middle of Michael Pierce's book. The quotations he offers on Spinoza, which I will share here out of context, are excellent representations of the Fe/Ti axis, which tends to universalize principles and ethics and see all people on more-or-less equal terms: Spinoza: "This, then, is the end to which I strive, to attain to such a character [of mind] myself, and to endeavor that many should attain to it with me. In other words, it is part of my happiness to lend a helping hand, that many others may understand even as I do, so that their understanding and desire may entirely agree with my own." Spinoza: "...speak in a manner intelligible to the multitude...For we can gain from the multitude no small advantages, provided that we strive to accommodate ourselves to its understanding as far as possible..." Spinoza: "To act virtuously is to act in obedience with reason...the highest good for those who follow after virtue is to know God; that is, a good which is common to all and can be possessed by all men equally...it follows not accidentally but from the very nature of reason, that man's highest good is common to all..."
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.
