Public edition
The Book of Temperaments
Igor R. O. Carneiro · Axis Ratio Method. Fifteen chapters, from the foundations of temperament to the four genera, the twelve species, and the paths to maturity.
Foundations
what temperament is and how it comes into operation
Chapter 1
What the temperaments areTemperament is not a psychological profile, nor a set of traits arranged for sorting people quickly.Chapter 2
How temperament passes from the body-soul composite to the internal sensesIf temperament is an original structure of personality, the next question arises on its own: how does that structure begin to operate?
The axes
the two axes and their poles
Chapter 3
From temperament to the structural axesOnce it is understood that temperament is structure, and that this structure enters experience through sensitive life, another question arises: how can the diversity we see among people be organized intelligently?Chapter 4
The first axis: choleric and phlegmaticThe choleric-phlegmatic axis deals with what may well be the first problem in the practical life of the soul: how a person stands before reality when reality resists, wears them down and makes demands.Chapter 5
The second axis: sanguine and melancholicIf the first axis deals with how the embodied soul stands before reality, the second deals with how that same soul lives experience inwardly. The question is no longer "how do I act on the world?" but "how is the world lived in me?"
Genera and species
four genera, twelve species, and the wheel
Chapter 6
The four temperamental generaThe four temperamental genera, which are the great matrices of personality, are the choleric, the sanguine, the phlegmatic and the melancholic. A genus is not a complete species, nor a closed description of the concrete person.Chapter 7
The temperamental species: pure and mixedIf the genera are the great universes of the structure, the species are the concrete forms in which those universes appear in a person.Chapter 8
The wheel of the 12 temperamentsThe wheel is not a secondary visual aid or a pretty way of arranging names: it is the graphic expression of the method's architecture.
The fall and maturity
body, soul, vices, and paths to maturity
The four genera
each genus and its three species
Chapter 11
The cholericThe choleric is not defined by anger. Anger does come easily to them, it is true, but it comes as the consequence of something deeper, which is their relationship with the arduous.Chapter 12
The sanguineThe sanguine is not defined by partying or by cheerfulness.Chapter 13
The phlegmaticThe phlegmatic's problem is not starting; it is changing state.Chapter 14
The melancholicBefore sadness, perfectionism, criticism or seriousness, there is in the melancholic a simpler and deeper operation, which is measuring.