Artistic Integrity, Note #1
1. NF Idealists impose a constraint on SP Artisans as to how the latter live their lives: their lives must be a story, have an identity. More important, they must be true to their own artistic visions.
On the other hand, SPs impose an imperative on NFs: they must fight for what they believe in. To reverse this, NFs urge SPs to believe in what they fight for instead of being their normal cynical selves. That’s why all the SP cartoon superheroes fight for “justice,” an NF cardinal virtue.
2. One of the very few deficiencies of Keirsey’s Please Understand Me II is that he failed to realize that Artisans represent the passions or sensuality which is split into two distinct powers: the concupiscible and the irascible. The former is instinctively attracted to sensual pleasure and flies from pain; the latter is that whereby an animal resists attacks and attacks others. Therefore, to Artisans two virtues belong: temperance and courage. Folks of this temperament seek not only sensual stimulation, as Keirsey asserts, but victory, as well.
Posted: September 20th, 2008 under Ethics, Philosophy.