Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

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Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by Greg Shantz » Fri May 09, 2008 4:28 am

A couple of weblogs which talk about Weininger and his ideas:

http://thechambersinitiative.blogspot.c ... igent.html

http://phlogma.com/

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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by average » Fri May 09, 2008 4:29 am

He was essentially a retard.

Shooting himself was probably his only rational action.
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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by Greg Shantz » Fri May 09, 2008 4:31 am

LOL.

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Post by Greg Shantz » Fri May 09, 2008 4:37 am

Somewhat related, on the question of women having souls, Dave Sim said:
On the first quote, I don't think this is particularly helpful, either given that we have absolutely no knowledge of what "a soul" or "soul" is, let alone who has one, who hasn't one, what its characteristics and/or properties are. Women could have completely different souls or identical souls, we have no idea. Telling them they don't have soul isn't likely to advance any discussion an inch, though.
I wonder what Weininger would say to that!

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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by Cory Duchesne » Fri May 09, 2008 4:39 am

so is Sim going to be on the reasoning show?

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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by Greg Shantz » Fri May 09, 2008 4:42 am

I doubt it.

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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by Greg Shantz » Fri May 09, 2008 4:47 am

Also, Sim said:
You know, Greg, that may be either true, "true" or True but it's certainly something that is guaranteed to elicit a negative reaction from women, particularly in this case where you're attempting to take Weininger's intellectual argument -- "this is Largely or Mostly True when discussing women" -- and apply to Rev Smooth who pretty obviously sees herself as being in a completely separate category.

What Rev Smooth was doing, as far as I can see, was attempting to jam me into her own construct: the genders are interchangeable, some people are smarter than others but it has nothing to do with gender, hey, Dave Sim you seem pretty smart let's see if you can metaphorically "tear me a new one" in intellectual debate. Convince me of your point of view.
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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by Tomas » Fri May 09, 2008 9:32 am

Greg Shantz wrote:Somewhat related, on the question of women having souls, Dave Sim said:
On the first quote, I don't think this is particularly helpful, either given that we have absolutely no knowledge of what "a soul" or "soul" is, let alone who has one, who hasn't one, what its characteristics and/or properties are. Women could have completely different souls or identical souls, we have no idea. Telling them they don't have soul isn't likely to advance any discussion an inch, though.
I wonder what Weininger would say to that!

He couldn't relate to his mother - why else would one kill oneself? As bad as any day presents itself - there's always another day for those who wait. As far as what he would say? - who cares? He lost his soul.


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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by samadhi » Fri May 09, 2008 11:38 am

As bad as any day presents itself - there's always another day for those who wait.
I like that!

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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by average » Fri May 09, 2008 12:43 pm

As bad as any day presents itself - there's always a worse day for those who wait.

fixed.

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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere

Post by Dave Toast » Fri May 09, 2008 8:40 pm

As bad as any day presents itself - there's always a worse day for those who wilt.

Fixed again.

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