Tom Paine
1737–1809
“Rights of Man sets common sense against monarchy and dogma.”
The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.
- UIUniversalist Impulse8 / 10
- WPWill to Power7 / 10
- TETrust in Experience7 / 10
- SRSkeptical Reflex7 / 10
The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.
- Frances WrightFORGE
Free thought, abolition, and equal education filled her Course of Popular Lectures.
- Bhimrao AmbedkarFORGE
Annihilation of Caste turns conversion to Buddhism into moral rebellion.
- Charlotte Perkins GilmanFORGE
Her Women and Economics names domestic labor as economic invisibility.
- Anna Julia CooperFORGE
In A Voice from the South, Black women are the measure of any republic.
- Ida B. WellsFORGE
Anti-lynching investigations — moral evidence over respectability.
- Olympe de GougesFORGE
Declaration of the Rights of Woman — guillotined for taking liberty seriously.
Short exercises in the same tradition as Tom Paine's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.
Three doors lead onward.
- 01 · QUIZThe InheritorFind your archetype — discover whether you'd argue with Tom Paine or alongside them.CONTINUE ▶
- 02 · COMPARETom Paine vs Frances WrightOn Mull's map Frances Wright sits closest. See where they agree and where they part.CONTINUE ▶
- 03 · DAILYToday's SparOne philosopher, one topic, five minutes. A new one drops every day.CONTINUE ▶