The causa sui (cause of self) is the best self-contradiction that has been conceived so far; it is a sort of perversion of logic.
But the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with just this nonsense.
The desire for “freedom of the will” in the superlative metaphysical sense, which still holds sway, unfortunately, in the minds of the half-educated; the desire to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for one’s actions oneself, and to absolve God, the world, ancestors, chance, and society involves nothing less than to be precisely this causa sui and, with outlandish audacity,
To believe that one bears tge entire and ultimate responsibility for one’s actions oneself, is like believing that one pulls oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the swamps of nothingness.
Source Nietzsche
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But the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with just this nonsense.
The desire for “freedom of the will” in the superlative metaphysical sense, which still holds sway, unfortunately, in the minds of the half-educated; the desire to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for one’s actions oneself, and to absolve God, the world, ancestors, chance, and society involves nothing less than to be precisely this causa sui and, with outlandish audacity,
To believe that one bears tge entire and ultimate responsibility for one’s actions oneself, is like believing that one pulls oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the swamps of nothingness.
Source Nietzsche
English lessons on Skype at: http://tutoringexcellence.blogspot.co.uk/
Books by Peter Cheevers at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=peter+cheevers&x=0&y=0
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