Oswald Spengler Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Oswald Spengler? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Oswald Spengler from Western Philosophy and what is the personality traits.
INTJ (5w4)
Oswald Spengler personality type is INTJ, the Mastermind, the Scientist.
The Mastermind is often described as being brilliant, but likely not as much as the true Mastermind. This is because the true Mastermind is the one that is truly brilliant, by which I mean that they have an innate ability to understand how the world operates, but are so good at being able to mimic the behavior of others that they are able to blend in seamlessly.
Spengler's description of the true Mastermind is as follows:
He is gifted with the ability to see the inner logic of things and to follow it up step by step. (page 483)
He is a man of very great originality and depth, of sumptuous genius. (page 483)
His power of imagination is enormous; he inhabits a world of his own creation; he dreams and draws and can formulate and can do all that is needed, and his life is filled with the conviction that the world of his dreams is real and that he can make it come true. (page 483)
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering all of world history. Spengler's model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
