Alexius Meinong Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Alexius Meinong? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Alexius Meinong from Western Philosophy and what is the personality traits.
INTP (5w6)
Alexius Meinong personality type is INTP, so am I right? I want to get a good understanding of the type system and am also curious about how far these theories have been applied to real life.
While Myers-Briggs and the MBTI is a great system for understanding yourself, it makes a lot of assumptions of what is normal and what is not. I’m sure you’ve heard of the “overly analytical” personality! That’s a Myers-Briggs personality type, too!
The idea that, for example, an INFJ would feel better about their job if they got a new title like “Director of Marketing” instead of “Marketing Director”.
But if you’re interested in learning more about your type, I recommend looking into the Enneagram. It’s not quite as well known in the US, but it has much less baggage in general. For example, I’ve known people with the same Myers-Briggs type (INFJ) who are very different in their Enneagram type.
I remember when I first learned about the Enneagram in college.
Alexius Meinong Ritter von Handschuchsheim (b. 1853, d. 1920) was an Austrian philosopher and psychologist who worked at the University of Graz from 1882 until his death. He initiated experimental psychology in Austria-Hungary by founding the first psychological laboratory there in 1894. However, he became primarily renowned for the so called theory of objects ([Gegenstandstheorie], 1904), a kind of a priori ontological account that introduces and considers systematically not only existent but also non-existent objects. His approach is not only shaped by Franz Brentano’s descriptive psychology, a form of phenomenological philosophy, and its connected notion of intentionality (directedness of mind), but also by the British empiricists. Continuing and modifying Brentano’s philosophical teachings, Meinong provided important original contributions to quite a few philosophical disciplines, most notably to ontology and metaphysics, value theory, epistemology and philosophical psychology.
