Otto Weininger in the blogosphere
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Otto Weininger in the blogosphere
A couple of weblogs which talk about Weininger and his ideas:
http://thechambersinitiative.blogspot.c ... igent.html
http://phlogma.com/
http://thechambersinitiative.blogspot.c ... igent.html
http://phlogma.com/
Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere
He was essentially a retard.
Shooting himself was probably his only rational action.
Shooting himself was probably his only rational action.
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Somewhat related, on the question of women having souls, Dave Sim said:
I wonder what Weininger would say to that!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.
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Re: Otto Weininger in the blogosphere
I doubt it.
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Also, Sim said:
Sim's responses only here, full version here.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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Greg Shantz wrote:Somewhat related, on the question of women having souls, Dave Sim said:
I wonder what Weininger would say to that!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.
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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I like that!As bad as any day presents itself - there's always another day for those who wait.
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As bad as any day presents itself - there's always a worse day for those who wait.
fixed.
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As bad as any day presents itself - there's always a worse day for those who wilt.
Fixed again.