Post by admin on Feb 4, 2008 20:02:02 GMT -5
Sex and Character, Weininger argues that all people are composed of a mixture of the male and the female substance, and attempts to support his view scientifically. The male aspect is active, productive, conscious and moral/logical, while the female aspect is passive, unproductive, unconscious and amoral/alogical.
Weininger argues that emancipation should be reserved for the "masculine woman", e.g. some lesbians, /and that the female life is consumed with the sexual function: both with the act, as a prostitute, and the product, as a mother.
In a separate chapter, Weininger, himself a Jew who had converted to Christianity in 1902, analyzes the archetypical Jew as feminine, and thus profoundly irreligious, without true individuality (soul), and without a sense of good and evil. Christianity is described as "the highest expression of the highest faith", while Judaism is called "the extreme of cowardliness". Weininger decries the decay of modern times, and attributes much of it to feminine, and thus Jewish, influences. By Weininger's reckoning everyone shows some femininity, and what he calls "Jewishness"
"A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence" (Sex and Character, New York: G.P. Putnam, 1906, p. 302).
"Greatness is absent from the nature of the woman and the Jew, the greatness of morality, or the greatness of evil.
In the Aryan man, the good and bad principles of Kant’s religious philosophy are ever present, ever in strife.
In the Jew and the woman, good and evil are not distinct from one another ... It would not be difficult to make a case for the view that the Jew is more saturated with femininity than the Aryan, to such an extent that the most manly Jew is more feminine than the least manly Aryan."[/size] (ibid., p. 189).
burn them at the stake
Weininger argues that emancipation should be reserved for the "masculine woman", e.g. some lesbians, /and that the female life is consumed with the sexual function: both with the act, as a prostitute, and the product, as a mother.
In a separate chapter, Weininger, himself a Jew who had converted to Christianity in 1902, analyzes the archetypical Jew as feminine, and thus profoundly irreligious, without true individuality (soul), and without a sense of good and evil. Christianity is described as "the highest expression of the highest faith", while Judaism is called "the extreme of cowardliness". Weininger decries the decay of modern times, and attributes much of it to feminine, and thus Jewish, influences. By Weininger's reckoning everyone shows some femininity, and what he calls "Jewishness"
"A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence" (Sex and Character, New York: G.P. Putnam, 1906, p. 302).
"Greatness is absent from the nature of the woman and the Jew, the greatness of morality, or the greatness of evil.
In the Aryan man, the good and bad principles of Kant’s religious philosophy are ever present, ever in strife.
In the Jew and the woman, good and evil are not distinct from one another ... It would not be difficult to make a case for the view that the Jew is more saturated with femininity than the Aryan, to such an extent that the most manly Jew is more feminine than the least manly Aryan."[/size] (ibid., p. 189).
burn them at the stake
