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‘That She is incapable of abstraction from the particular to the general implies She cannot understand the concept of law in its speculative application in science or its moral employment in ethics. Thus Weininger insists that Woman cannot be evil or anti-moral, only a-moral. The great paradox of femininity for Weininger is that W’s lack of a real self determines that all of Her acts are selfish.’ Gosh again!
— Feb 17, 2026 05:21AM
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“Man, has the same psychical contents as woman but in a more articulated form; while she thinks more or less in henids (granular percepts) he thinks in clear, distinct concepts linked to definite feelings which can always be removed from their objects.” W writes. The consequences of this inability to think clearly follow fast and furious: the nihilistic nature of Woman follows from her incapacity to abstract
— Feb 17, 2026 04:38AM
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‘In literature, the problem that Weininger addressed is precisely the one that Leo Tolstoy posed in The Kreutzer Sonata: how can there be moral relations between the sexes? It is scarcely a theme that we can recognize as a problem 100 years after the Jazz Age, which turned the tides in these matters. In Weininger’s view, only when men abstain from sexual relations with women are both truly human.’. (Gosh!)
— Feb 16, 2026 09:24AM
