Raymond Aron Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Raymond Aron? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Raymond Aron from Western Philosophy and what is the personality traits.
INTP (5w4)
Raymond Aron personality type is INTP, and that's the type I am. I'm also a highly technical person, and I'm a 'humanist'. I am self-motivated and independent, and I believe in the power of the individual.
My wife is a humanitarian and sociologist. We try to make our home a place of peace and tranquility. We share the same interests and hobbies and we have been happy together for over 40 years.
I have been a student of physics for most of my life, but my interests have expanded to include psychology, philosophy, art, history, spirituality, and the study of human consciousness.
Basically I am a rationalist. I trust my own experience, and I believe in the ability of the human mind to form correct conclusions about reality. I believe in logic, mathematics, science, and in discovering rational explanations for all things.
As a humanist, my primary concern is with the human condition. When I look at a painting for example, I am not looking for beauty or for an aesthetic experience. I am looking for its spiritual significance.
In that spirit, I believe that one of the most important responsibilities of the philosopher is to discover what it means to be human.
Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, and journalist. He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people – Aron argues that in post-war France, Marxism was the opium of the intellectuals. In the book, Aron chastised French intellectuals for what he described as their harsh criticism of capitalism and democracy and their simultaneous defense of Marxist oppression, atrocities, and intolerance. Critic Roger Kimball suggests that Opium is "a seminal book of the twentieth century." Aron is also known for his lifelong friendship, sometimes fractious, with philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
As a voice of moderation in politics, Aron had many disciples on both the political left and right, but he remarked that he personally was "more of a left-wing Aronian than a right-wing one".
