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In Weininger's view, the masculine essence is active and energetic, and the feminine essence is passive and exists chiefly to be acted upon by the masculine. This means that only those women who are inherently more masculine than other women (and therefore are capable of genius, to some extent) can be truly 'emancipated', Weininger argues, with the other 'typical' women being portrayed as fundamentally vacuous creatures that are solely concerned with the matters of reproduction and sexuality. In an attempt to prove his thesis, he draws upon the science of Biology, the (then incipient) science of Psychology, and the corpus of Western philosophy. | In Weininger's view, the masculine essence is active and energetic, and the feminine essence is passive and exists chiefly to be acted upon by the masculine. This means that only those women who are inherently more masculine than other women (and therefore are capable of genius, to some extent) can be truly 'emancipated', Weininger argues, with the other 'typical' women being portrayed as fundamentally vacuous creatures that are solely concerned with the matters of reproduction and sexuality. In an attempt to prove his thesis, he draws upon the science of Biology, the (then incipient) science of Psychology, and the corpus of Western philosophy. | ||
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