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Thomas Malthus MBTI Personality Type

Thomas Malthus MBTI Personality Type

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What personality type is Thomas Malthus? Thomas Malthus is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 6w5 - sp/so - 684 in Enneagram, RLOEN in Big 5, LII in Socionics.

• Malthus: "The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas." (Ni fuses tangential associative impressions into an original synthesis. Many types, especially those with Ti, also seek to discover new truths, but Malthus seems to be suggesting that this happens at the perceptive level.) • Malthus: "I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born." (This is more demonstrative of Ni-Te-Fi as a whole.) • Malthus: "All that I can say is, that the wisest and best men in all ages had agreed in giving the preference, very greatly, to the pleasures of intellect; and that my own experience completely confirmed the truth of their decisions; that I had found sensual pleasures vain, transient, and continually attended with tedium and disgust; but that intellectual pleasures appeared to me ever fresh and young, filled up all my hours satisfactorily, gave a new zest to life, and diffused a lasting serenity over my mind." (This does not demonstrate Ni, but it does demonstrate inferior Se.)

Biography

Thomas Robert Malthus FRS ( February 13, 1766-December 23, 1834) was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography.