Diotima of Mantinea

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• MRMystical Receptivity

  7 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Charles HartshorneLIGHTHOUSE

  Process theology — God dipolar, suffering with creation.

• T.H. GreenLIGHTHOUSE

  Idealist ethics — the common good as the proper end of state action.

• Tommaso CampanellaLIGHTHOUSE

  City of the Sun — utopian republic governed by knowledge.

• NovalisLIGHTHOUSE

  Hymns to the Night — magical idealism; everything is symbol.

• Pico della MirandolaLIGHTHOUSE

  Oration on the Dignity of Man — self-fashioning as the human birthright.

• Anne ConwayLIGHTHOUSE

  Principles — one substance with infinite gradations; influenced Leibniz.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Diotima of Mantinea's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• The 60-second case →

  Compress your argument until 60 seconds is enough.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.