Part 1, Section 21
The causa sui is the best self-contradiction yet conceived; rejection of both free and unfree will in favor of strong/weak wills.
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From Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche rejects both 'free will' and 'unfree will' as conceptual mythologies; the causa sui is self-contradictory, and we should speak instead of strong and weak wills.
Part 1, Section 19
Analysis of willing as a complex of feeling, thinking, and affect of command--rejecting the simple unity of 'will.'
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A thought comes when it wishes, not when I wish'--undermines the Cartesian 'I think.Read in Books4Free →
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