Who died today:
1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher
Otto Weininger was born on 3 April 1880 in Vienna, a son of the Jewish goldsmith
In 1903, he published his most famous work: Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex and Character). In it, he states the male aspect is active, productive, conscious and moral/logical, while the female aspect is passive, unproductive, unconscious and amoral/alogical.
Weininger, 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. Weininger decries the decay of modern times, and attributes much of it to feminine, and thus Jewish, influences. Weininger rejected the demand of the women's rights activists and spoke out against feminism. On 3 October he took a room in the house in Schwarzspanierstraße 15 where Ludwig van Beethoven died and shot himself.
In his private conversations, Hitler recalled a remark his mentor Dietrich Eckart made about Weininger: "I only knew one decent Jew and he committed suicide...".
>"The Jew is not really anti-moral. But, none the less, he does not represent the highest ethical type. He is rather non- moral, neither good nor bad. So also in the case of the woman......In the Jew and the woman, good and evil are not distinct from one another. Jews, then, do not live as free, self-governing individuals, choosing between virtue and vice in the Aryan fashion. The true concept of the State is foreign to the Jew, because he, like the woman, is wanting in personality. As there is no real dignity in women, so what is meant by the word "gentleman" does not exist amongst the Jews."
