Jung's Four and Some Philosophers

<p>Thomas M. King S.J. uses Jungian/Myers-Briggs typology to understand the different starting points of twelve philosophers then uses Jungian patterns of integration to show similarities in their development.</p><p><i>Jung's Four and Some Philosophers</i> provides a context in which to understand the widely differing claims of philosophers. The four in the title refers to the four faculties that Jung sees occurring in pairs in every psyche: thinking and its opposite feeling; sensation and its opposite intuition. One of these four will dominate (among philosophers it will characterize what they find self-evident) while the dominant's opposite is repressed into the mysterious unconscious. Thus a thinker will repress one's feelings. To achieve wholeness the philosopher must pass beyond what is known to seek the missing faculty and integrate it with the faculties of consciousness. King demonstrates this with highly documented studies of twelve philosophers: Plato Locke Sartre Augustine Descartes Spinoza Rousseau Kant Kierkegaard Whitehead Hume and Teilhard and a final reflection that considers the philosophic and religious quest.</p>