Marsilius of Padua

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

• WPWill to Power

  7 / 10
• POPractical Orientation

  7 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  7 / 10
• VAVital Affirmation

  6 / 10

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

• Charlotte Perkins GilmanFORGE

  Women and Economics — domestic labor as economic invisibility.

• Ida B. WellsFORGE

  Anti-lynching investigations — moral evidence over respectability.

• Samuel PufendorfCARTOGRAPHER

  Duty grounded in sociability — the moral entity over the natural body.

• Hugo GrotiusCARTOGRAPHER

  Natural law and international right — peace built on shared reason.

• Paulo FreireFORGE

  Pedagogy of the Oppressed — education as the practice of freedom.

• Bartolomé de Las CasasFORGE

  Defender of the Indies — humanity of indigenous peoples insisted upon.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Marsilius of Padua'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.