Website owner: James Miller
Two important personality types:
1. The serious, honest, moral, upright person who acts in
accordance with conscience, high principle and reason. A
person of resolution and self-control. A person who
imposes a discipline upon himself. An independent, self-
reliant person.
2. The light-hearted, deceitful, immoral profligate who acts
according to momentary impulse and fleshly appetite. A
person without self-control, a slave to his own feelings
and bodily appetites. A person given to a life of
pleasure. A person inclined to depend on others,
manipulating them, using them, preying off them.
Is there one underlying cause for these two personality types?
Could this be the cause: A person of the serious, honest
personality type possesses a natural, strong moral sense that
causes him to impose restraint and discipline upon himself;
whereas a person of the dishonest, profligate personality type,
for some reason just does not possess any moral sense. From
the presence of the moral sense all the traits of the
personality type 1 follow; from the absence of a moral sense
all the traits of the personality type 2 follow.
Aug 1986
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