The Uniqueness of Western Law by Richard Storey

The Uniqueness of Western Law by Richard Storey

Author:Richard Storey [Storey, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: religion, libertarianism, western values, law, multiculturalism
ISBN: 9781912975037
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd.
Published: 2019-01-10T23:00:00+00:00


Chapter 5

Is There a European Personality Type?

The European is interested in the world, he wants to know it, to make this other confronting him his own, to bring to view the genus, law, universal, thought, the inner rationality, in the particular forms of the world. As in the theoretical, so too in the practical sphere, the European mind strives to make manifest the unity between itself and the outer world. It subdues the outer world to its ends with an energy which has ensured for it the mastery of the world.

— Hegel, Philosophy of Mind

I have become increasingly convinced that there is something unique to the psychology of Europeans — some traits which produced the highly rationalistic and empirical way we have conducted practical and intellectual endeavours for centuries. Spengler observed that Europeans can alone be characterised as having an infinite thirst for the as yet unknown — what he called the Faustian spirit. Weber, similarly, described the white man as possessing a higher degree of rationalism, leading to the West’s unique systematisation of law, religion and numerous other endeavours. But can we really identify a general personality type of the Europeans?

Of course, any scientific study of the matter is heavily stigmatised in the current age of egalitarianism. Nevertheless, we still have enough data to produce a hypothesis. Prof. Raymond Moody sought to test Carl Jung’s theory of racial personality types, which he summarised thus:

While he recognized that one’s psychological development is heavily influenced by the environment, Jung’s extensive research and clinical experience also led him to conclude that the basic features of personality are basically genetically determined, not only for individuals but for whole races and cultures as well.

In other words, racial personality ‘types’ define our inborn predispositions, while culture permits or limits the ways in which those predispositions can be expressed as behaviour. Prof. Moody concluded that Jung was correct — there is ‘a stronger biological basis to culture than we have heretofore recognized.’78

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test was developed from Jung’s concept of typology, and it divided personalities into sixteen types. Influenced by Plato, the late Prof. David Keirsey helpfully categorised these into four temperaments; his adapted test is now one of the most widely used by employers worldwide.



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