Series[UMA-SRE-20140039] RESEARCH AND REFERENCE CARD INDEXESAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014003900448Scope and ContentSection heading: Soul. Reference: Lotze R H, 1885 Microcosmus, T and T Clark, Edinburgh. Notes: Brackets represent another translation: [42] There can hardly be anything which (is perhaps no subject) a woman's intellect (mind) could not grasp (understand) but a real deal in which (there are a very many ways) women could never take an interest (learn to be interested). Though it is continuously (often) said that man's understanding seeks the particular yet, in numerous cases the woman's power of particularising will be found the less (very many we should find it is just the individualising power of women which is [?]; however, the apportionment of the business of the understanding would not accord with the egoistic efforts assigned to the male will and with thee subordination to the general assigned to woman's self [?] [46] ... to the female mind (soul of a woman) truth has quite a different meaning (does not mean the same thing) to the male (it does to a man's) mind. To women everything is true which is justified by the rational significance with which it ( a capacity of fitting in harmoniously to the rest of the) Back of card - References in different pen and script size interwoven. Black fine-line pen in larger script size: adapts to the whole of the rest of the world and its conditions it is of less consequence whether it is at the same time real. They are therefore inclined not to be sure to lying but to pretence and it does not matter to them whether anything which has become valued by them contributes to the desired pretence - also followed up in another respect would reflect a thing which is just what it appears to be .... predilection for a surrogate.... predominance of natural judgement over scientific analysis. Blue felt-tip pen: world considered as a whole with all its system of relations: they do not care about being all a reality. Hence they are inclined making a fan show and if something presents the appearance they desire in some connection which they regard as important they care [?] whether or not if women prove on investigation to be something which has any right to present that [?] To wish to seem what is not, is indeed a failure common to all humanity, but a man is accustomed to [?], at any rate in the foods which he possesses [?] and genuineness among women, on the evenness there is a widespread predilection for [?] Notes, appearing as a list: men. women. generality. completeness. analyse. enjoy synthesis. natural law > value. reality > value. e.g. Characteristic of masculine thought is the deep conviction that all which is great and most beautiful in the world has its mechanical conditions and [43] that no vessel which is premature and which evades this.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0039 Unit 0007Copyright StatusUniversity copyrightConditions of Use and ReproductionCopyright owned by University of Melbourne. For information about ordering a copy of this image contact the University of Melbourne Archives: archives@archives.unimelb.edu.auMenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
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