Causa sui#
Summary#
Causa sui, meaning “cause of itself,” is described as the best self-contradiction ever conceived, a logical violation and unnaturalness. Nietzsche connects it to human pride and the desire for absolute free will, arguing that to claim ultimate responsibility for one’s actions requires the absurdity of pulling oneself into existence out of nothingness. The concept demonstrates a fundamental impossibility: if our organs created the external world, and our body is part of that world, then our organs would be the work of our organs, a complete reductio ad absurdum.