11-02-2018, 01:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-02-2018, 01:24 AM by Eric the Green.)
Judging can be a bit misleading as a term, because what it means on the MBTI test is decisiveness, not being judgmental. It can be severe, since a Judger prefers order and discipline for self and others. Perceptive, the opposite pole, means openness to new information and preference to be unscheduled and spontaneous. Even though some people may find me opinionated and intolerant, I am definitely P from a lifestyle point of view. I prefer to be unscheduled, unplanned and freewheeling, and the reason I have opinions is partly because I am open enough to what's going on.
So although S&H might lean J, it's really the N element that exhibits itself most in the theory, insofar as the theory uses archetypes. Skeptics would call them stereotypes, since it's true that typing people and situations has its limits, but archetype is a more fair term that gives N its due. S&H theory is also empirical, because it is based on biographies of real people, but the eight types, or any list of types, is an N approach. It's called iNtuitive, but again the term is a bit misleading. It's not like eastern zen kinds of intuition; Zen is more like P. INtuition in Jungian and MBTI terms is Western intuition; in other words it's Platonic. It sees the general, the essential form, the abstract, the possible, the imaginative, the conceptual, the forest rather than the trees, designing rather than building. S-Sensing, the opposite MBTI term, is empirical and sense-based realism. A theory like the four turnings and four generational archetypes, leans N.
If you question my credentials as a TP type, and think I am FJ, perhaps with your empirical values one might wonder if you aren't really an S type. But then, maybe you really prefer to work with ideas rather than with things you can touch and see.
So although S&H might lean J, it's really the N element that exhibits itself most in the theory, insofar as the theory uses archetypes. Skeptics would call them stereotypes, since it's true that typing people and situations has its limits, but archetype is a more fair term that gives N its due. S&H theory is also empirical, because it is based on biographies of real people, but the eight types, or any list of types, is an N approach. It's called iNtuitive, but again the term is a bit misleading. It's not like eastern zen kinds of intuition; Zen is more like P. INtuition in Jungian and MBTI terms is Western intuition; in other words it's Platonic. It sees the general, the essential form, the abstract, the possible, the imaginative, the conceptual, the forest rather than the trees, designing rather than building. S-Sensing, the opposite MBTI term, is empirical and sense-based realism. A theory like the four turnings and four generational archetypes, leans N.
If you question my credentials as a TP type, and think I am FJ, perhaps with your empirical values one might wonder if you aren't really an S type. But then, maybe you really prefer to work with ideas rather than with things you can touch and see.