i don't know very much about eastern philosophy. some of it was imported into existentialism and european idealism after the Enlightenment and i've assumed that what i've gotten of it from there is enough for my purposes for now. also what i've gotten through jung. (i don't study this stuff for a living after all. time is limited.)
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but there's an important qualification i need to make to my last post. i'm not saying Te types are necessarily in tune with modern empirical subjects, or that only Te types are so. what i am saying is that for Ayn Rand to make it her job to be in tune with these things (as they relate to economic philosophy and phil of the mind for example) and then to largely overlook them is significant. even more so when you consider that during her own time period lots of her colleagues were taking notice of new empirical discoveries in those fields. that stuff was really taking off then.
also i think significant: Rand's philosophy seem very disconnected from any other "school" of philosophy, both in style and in substance. this could be the mark of someone brilliant enough to see beyond most every presently available resource. it could also indicate that someone is weak in digesting and appraising other sources of data than his or her own thoughts and anecdotes.
Originally Posted by
tcaudilllg
Rand is ENTp.
yeah and so is Gilly. or is he ENFj? or ENFp? etc. it's difficult to type people we can communicate with and observe directly, let alone this eccentric woman from eastern European who's been dead for decades and didn't even speak our native language very well. (you're American, right?) ok ENTp is a possibility but you state is like tautology almost! i don't even know if you mean the same thing i do when you say ENTp. and i'm not just referring to type description ambiguities (or the ambiguity of socionics in general). i'm also referring to this exotic "exertion type" theory you're always speaking to, that hardly anyone else around here seems to take seriously. there are times for confident declaration and there are times for speculative new theories, but where do you think you are going to get yourself by mixing the two?