I’ve found another treasure on Eric A. Meece site. It’s an essay that proposes a 2-dimensional taxonomy of philosophy (and our minds, too). One of the polarities is spiritual/material. And the other intellectual/experiential. Combining the two dimensions we get four basic philosophic types (rationalist, empiricist, essentialist and existentialist). There is also a questionnaire to find out on which part of the map you are.
The correspondence between each part of the map and Jungian functions (thinking, sensing, intuition and feeling) is particularly interesting. It’s also – as far as I can tell – the novel part of the essay.
I found very appealing the diagram showing on which position some philosophers and scientists are. For example, Plato, Kant an Hegel would be essentialists. Schopenhauer, Jung and Campbell existentialist. Empedocles and Newton rationalist. Locke, Hume and Darwin empiricist.
Although I’m not very fond of tests, I took the questionnaire. I got 14 Experiential and 58 Spiritual. So, according to the questionnaire, I belong to the existentialist part of the map. The result surprised me a bit, cause I viewed myself more as an essentialist than an existentialist.
In summary, another interesting and useful work by Eric A. Meece.