>While a student at the Realschule, Wittgenstein was influenced by Austrian philosopher Otto Weininger's 1903 book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex and Character). Weininger (1880–1903), who was also Jewish, argued that the concepts male and female exist only as Platonic forms, and that Jews tend to embody the platonic femininity. Whereas men are basically rational, women operate only at the level of their emotions and sexual organs. Jews, Weininger argued, are similar, saturated with femininity, with no sense of right and wrong, and no soul. Weininger argues that man must choose between his masculine and feminine sides, consciousness and unconsciousness, Platonic love and sexuality. Love and sexual desire stand in contradiction, and love between a woman and a man is therefore doomed to misery or immorality. The only life worth living is the spiritual one—to live as a woman or a Jew means one has no right to live at all; the choice is genius or death.
> Many years later, as a professor at Cambridge, Wittgenstein distributed copies of Weininger's book to his bemused academic colleagues. He said that Weininger's arguments were wrong, but that it was the way they were wrong that was interesting.[66]
What did he mean by this? No, seriously, what the fuck did he actually mean?
Yes, this was always a strange one for me when reading about Wittgenstein's life.
Still don't really get what he meant.
>>2384781
in Weininger's article it says Witt thought it was wrong as whole, but it isn't telling much
>>2384781
An aesthetic car wreck.
So to speak.
Probably meant his use of language was interesting in how incorrect it was
>>2384839
that's actually probably it
thanks
>>2384839
or that he was simply wrong, but even from the wrongness there's something to learn
Jews always defend and laud each other. No matter what.
>>2384997
Fuck off, retard.
Did you even read the OP?