{"id":12194,"date":"2009-11-18T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/some-aphorisms-of-otto-weininger\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:21:28","slug":"some-aphorisms-of-otto-weininger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/some-aphorisms-of-otto-weininger\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Aphorisms of Otto Weininger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theabsolute.net\/ottow\/\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">Otto Weininger<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, <strong>Ueber die Letzten Dinge<\/strong> (Wien und Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumueller Verlag, Neunte Auflage, 1930), pp. 65-72. Translations by BV.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><em>Grundzug alles Menschlichen: Suchen nach Realitaet. Wo die Realitaet gesucht and gefunden wird, das begruendet alle Unterschiede zwischen den Menschen.<\/em> <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The quest for reality is a fundamental characteristic of human beings. Where reality is sought and found, however, explains all differences among them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><em>Der gute Aphoristiker muss hassen koennen.<\/em><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The good aphorist must be able to hate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><em>Der Transzendentalismus ist identisch mit dem Gedanken, dass es nur eine Seele gibt, und dass die Individuation Schein ist. Hier widerspricht der Monadologische Charakter der kanstischen Ethik schnurgerade der &quot;Kritik der reinen Vernunft.&quot;<\/em><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Transcendentalism is identical with the thought that there is only one soul, and that a plurality of souls is an illusion. Here the monadological character of Kant&#39;s ethics straightaway contradicts the Critique of Pure Reason. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A fruitful thought, though roughly expressed. But what do you want for an aphorism? The idea is that there is a tension between the <strong>Critique of Practical Reason<\/strong>, which presupposes the thinkability, if not the knowability, of a plurality of metaphysically (and thus transcendently) real noumenal selves capable of acting freely, and the <strong>Critique of Pure Reason<\/strong> in which the subject of experience and phenomenal knowledge is a mere transcendental (not transcendent) subject, a consciousness in general (<em>Bewusstsein ueberhaupt<\/em> to use a phrase later made famous by neo-Kantians) that is neither mine nor yours but common to us all. It is a crude approximation, however, to refer to this transcendental subject as a soul, as Weininger does. This aphorism would have made a good motto for my doctoral dissertation, which deals with similar problems.<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otto Weininger, Ueber die Letzten Dinge (Wien und Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumueller Verlag, Neunte Auflage, 1930), pp. 65-72. Translations by BV. Grundzug alles Menschlichen: Suchen nach Realitaet. Wo die Realitaet gesucht and gefunden wird, das begruendet alle Unterschiede zwischen den Menschen. The quest for reality is a fundamental characteristic of human beings. 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