Philosophical MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Philosophical? Philosophical is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sp/sx - 541 in Enneagram, RLOEI in Big 5, LII in Socionics.
Going with stereotypes, defintely high Intuition and Ti-Fe/Fe-Ti axis. I can see Te and Fi less interested in it since Fi already feel values, it doesn't need to explain/rationalize (I remember a girl, probably a Fi dom, that when talking about Kant was saying to me: "why should I read books to understand why killing is wrong? I already know it"). Te and Fi users are the most empirical intuitives, meaning they search for evidences in the real world using intuition, while sensors are generally already grounded, they don't even need to theorize most of the time. Philosophy is defintely a Ti matter in its process and a Fe matter in its outcome in a overall general abstract vision (Ni), most of the time, meaning "this is logical so everybody should do it because it gives a standard for moral agreement" so xNFJ, mostly INFJ cause ENFJ is more about taking action. It can also be Fe in the process and Ti in the goal, like in the analytical approach, meaning "everybody should let personal motivations aside and pursue accuracy in a creative and free way", so xNTP, but at this point is really more about pure logic rather than philosophy, more concerned with the truth rather than with wisdom. I have a hard time imagining types without Ti in their stack doing philosophy honestly but this is a problem I have with mbti in general... it seems it is just describing very abstract models rather than people... I could see why INTJ and ENTJ could be interested in philosophy but for INFP and ENFP I don't know... Demonic and trickster Ti paired with low Te should described people that really care very little about accuracy and truth. Fi already knows about values and Te already knows about facts so why should I need philosophy? I guess the answer is in Ne ahaha (but if someone knows about this I wish he/she could explain to me!) I can also imagine healthy ISxx being interested in philosophy later in their life after developing inferior functions while ESxx in my experience are very uncaring about it, almost irritated, like what's the point of this? (and I can understand them sometimes lol) I know an ESTJ enneagram 3 girl (she typed as ESFJ but she is definitely a thinker) that studies philosophy in university but don't want to talk of it outside of class, meaning she doesn't give a fuck about it, it's just something in which she is good and she generally thinks it looks cool to know about it or writing the occasional Plato quote on social medias. About enneagram, well 5w4 is called "the philosopher" for a reason I guess... It's about being detatched but not enough to not care about the more human matters and so trying to rationalize them to find a solution. I can also see a healthy 7 integrating into a 5 as being very philosophical. Obvious 4 fix in the heart and 9 or 1 in the gut.
