The causa sui is the best self-contradiction that has ever been conceived, a type of logical rape and abomination. But humanity’s excessive pride has got itself profoundly and horribly entangled with precisely this piece of nonsense. The longing for “freedom of the will” in the superlative meta- physical sense (which, unfortunately, still rules in the heads of the half- educated), the longing to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for your actio ns yourself and to relieve God, world, ancestors, chance, and so- ciety of the burden – all this means nothing less than being that very causa sui and, with a courage greater than M ¨ unchhausen’s, pulling yourself by the hair from the swamp of nothingness up into existence. Suppose some- one sees through the boorish naivet ´ e of this famous concept of “free will” and manages to get it out of his mind; I would then ask him to carry his “enlightenment” a step further and to rid his mind of the reversal of this misconceived concept of “free will”: I mean the “un-free will,” which is basically an abuse of cause and effect. We should not erroneously objectify “cause” and “effect” like the natural scientists do (and whoever else thinks naturalistically these days –) in accordance with the dominant mechanis- tic stupidity which would have the cause push and shove until it “effects” something; we should use “cause” and “effect” only as pure concepts, which is to say as conventio nal fictions for the purpose of description and communication, not explana tion. In the “in-itself ” there is nothing like “causal association,” “necessity,” or “psychological un-freedom.” There, the “effect” does not follow “from the cause,” there is no rule of “law.” We are the ones who invented causation, succession, for-each-other, rel- ativity, compulsion, numbers, law, freedom, grounds, pur pose; and if we project and inscribe this symbol world onto things as an “in-itself,” then this is the way we have always done things, namely mythologically. The “un-free will” is mythology; in real life it is only a matter of strong and weak wills. It is almost always a symptom of what is lacking in a thinker when he senses some compulsion, need, having-to-follow, pressure, un- freedom in every “causal connection” and “psychological necessity.”