Logic and ethics

From Wikisocion

Logic / ethics is one of the 4 Jungian type dichotomies. Ethical types have strong ethics (in the ego and id) and weak logic (in the super-ego and super-id), while logical types have strong logic and weak ethics. Ethics (the information elements     and    ) in socionics is the understanding of the human, social, moral, and emotional content of reality, whereas logic (    and    ) is the understanding of the inanimate, measurable, systemic, and procedural content of reality. Hence, logical/ethical types are distinguished by the relative facility with which they understand these aspects of reality.

The "L"/"E" in the first two letters of the three-letter type code stands for logical/ethical.

Ethical types: SEI, ESE, EIE, IEI, SEE, ESI, EII, and IEE.

Logical types: ILE, LII, LSI, SLE, ILI, LIE, LSE, and SLI.

[edit] Typical characteristics

[edit] Ethical types

1. More social, people-oriented
2. More inclined to obvious friendliness or hostility
3. More expressive body language and facial expressions
4. Tend to prefer persuasion over argumentation
5. More strong and controlled emotionality
6. More vulnerable to "logical" manipulation (being told false information, ...) and resistant to ethical

[edit] Logical types

1. More logical, task-oriented
2. More inclined to reserved composure and emotional neutrality
3. May have either "logical" body-language or none at all
4. Tend to prefer argumentation over persuasion
5. More emotionally unsure, may have exaggerated emotional response when dealing with situations
6. More vulnerable to "ethical" manipulation (flattery, ...) and resistant to logical

[edit] In gender

Generally, most socionists claim that logical types are more common among men, and ethical types among women. The ratios suggested are generally between 55%-45% and 70%-30%. Others maintain that the distribution is more or less balanced.

In addition, socionists note that logical women tend to be more emotional than logical men, and ethical men less openly emotional than women.

It is sometimes suggested that this disparity has a biological basis; namely, that women are biologically adapted to bear, rear, and educate children and to cooperate with others, which are ethics are a suitable tool. Men, however, are biologically inclined to procuring food, organizing work activities and hierarchies, and competing with others, in which logic often plays a greater role.

The association with women as openly emotional and men as less so is also subject to the influence of cultural stereotypes.

[edit] External links

• Logic / Ethics by Rick DeLong