A pair of Ethical/Logical type traits is defined by filling the Strong/Weak function blocks with rational (Fi, Fe, Ti, Te) information aspects. Thus, Ethical types have strong Fi-Fe and weak Ti-Te aspects, while Logical types have strong Ti-Te and weak Fi-Fe aspects.
As mentioned in the previous article, Strong/Weak properties form broad and narrow channels for assimilating information. When combined with rational aspect pairs grouped under one trait, these properties establish one of the fundamental divisions of types – into ethics and logics. Thus, the former are better oriented to the subjective response to the surrounding reality, while the latter are better at objective understanding of this reality. Let’s take a closer look at them.
Ethics are better at dealing with subjective information: they find it easier to look at the world through someone else’s value system, understand why other people see things differently, and why they hold their views. Because of this, they can influence the relationships of others and change their behavior. In contrast, logics are better at dealing with objective information: they can easily understand other people’s explanations or instructions, relate knowledge from different sources and find inconsistencies between them, or conversely, combine them to obtain some new knowledge. Accordingly, ethics prefer to rely on their own understanding, as it is difficult for them to immediately start using someone else’s knowledge, while it is harder for logics to understand other people, change their views, or learn to behave differently.
When determining these traits, it is important to remember that they relate only to how we assimilate information, that is, how our experience is formed. If a person understands something well in some aspect, it does not necessarily indicate that their strong function is working. It is possible that it is their Mobilizing function that inertly worked through the topic of interest to the person, or their Suggestive one that passively absorbed and adjusted to someone else’s convictions. Strength/weakness is primarily about whether we can see the world through someone else’s eyes, whether we can adopt someone else’s experience. Therefore, when typing, we recommend moving on to them only after you have identified inert and valued functions.
Ethics types include Hugo, Dumas, Hamlet, Yesenin, Napoleon, Dreiser, Huxley and Dostoyevsky.
Logic types include Don Quixote, Robespierre, Zhukov, Maxim Gorky, Jack London, Balzac, Stierlitz and Gabin.