Sex & Character: Authorised Translation from the Sixth German EditionWeininger, Otto
Philosophy
Sex & Character: Authorised Translation from the Sixth German Edition
Weininger, Otto
Character; Sex; Sex (Psychology); Sexual ethics
Organisation and the power of reproducing thoughts -- Memory of
experiences a sign of genius -- Remarks and conclusions --
Remembrance and apperception -- Capacity for comparison and
acquisition -- Reasons for the masculinity of music, drawing and
painting -- Degrees of genius -- Relation of genius to ordinary
men -- Autobiography -- Fixed ideas -- Remembrance of personal
creations -- Continuous and discontinuance memory -- Continuity
and piety -- Past and present -- Past and future -- Desire for
immortality -- Existing psychological explanations -- True
origin -- Inner development of man until death -- Ontogenetic
psychology or theoretical biography -- Woman lacking in the
desire for immortality -- Further extension of relation of
memory to genius -- Memory and time -- Postulate of timelessness
-- Value as a timeless quality -- First law of the theory of
value -- Proofs -- Individuation and duration constituents of
value -- Desire for immortality a special case -- Desire for
immortality in genius connected with timelessness, by his
universal memory and the duration of his creations -- Genius and
history -- Genius and nations -- Genius and language -- Men of
action and men of science, not to be called men of genius --
Philosophers, founders of religion and artists have genius
CHAPTER VI
MEMORY, LOGIC AND ETHICS 142
Psychology and “psychologismus” -- Value of memory -- Theory of
memory -- Doctrines of practice and of association -- Confusion
with recognition -- Memory peculiar to man -- Moral significance
-- Lies -- Transition to logic -- Memory and the principle of
identity -- Memory and the syllogism -- Woman non-logical and
non-ethical -- Intellectual and moral knowledge -- The
intelligible ego
CHAPTER VII
LOGIC, ETHICS AND THE EGO 153
Critics of the conception of the Ego -- Hume: Lichtenberg, Mach
-- The ego of Mach and biology -- Individuation and
individuality -- Logic and ethics as witnesses for the existence
of the ego -- Logic -- Laws of identity and of contraries --
Their use and significance -- Logical axioms as the laws of
essence -- Kant and Fichte -- Freedom of thought and freedom of
the will -- Ethics -- Relation to logic -- The psychology of the
Kantian ethics -- Kant and Nietzsche
CHAPTER VIII
THE “I” PROBLEM AND GENIUS 163
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