Sex and Character: The Pioneering Study of Gender Traits, Masculine and Feminine Attributes

Otto Weininger's groundbreaking thesis, in which he argues that all people are comprised of masculine and feminine traits, is reproduced here in full.

Considered a classic work of modern Viennese philosophy, Geschlecht und Charakter - in English, Sex and Character - was influential over subsequent works about human psychology and philosophy of the mind. Weininger defines a series of character traits and extremes which he assigns to gender, concluding that no person embodies every trait to th...