Karatani Kojin

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

• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10
• POPractical Orientation

  7 / 10

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

• Jeremy BenthamFORGE

  The greatest happiness of the greatest number — pleasure calculus made law.

• Adam SmithFORGE

  Theory of Moral Sentiments — the impartial spectator inside each of us.

• Aníbal QuijanoFORGE

  Coloniality of power — race as the deepest axis of modern domination.

• Henry SidgwickFORGE

  Methods of Ethics — utilitarianism, egoism, intuitionism scrupulously compared.

• Joseph PriestleyFORGE

  Necessity, materialism, oxygen — Unitarian radical chemist.

• Chen DuxiuFORGE

  Founder of Chinese Communism — New Youth's call to science and democracy.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Karatani Kojin's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.