Baron Münchhausen pulls himself out of a mire by his own hair
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Baron Münchhausen pulls himself out of a mire by his own hair[1] is an episode from Baron Münchhausen.
In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche references this feat by the Baron:
- "The desire for "freedom of will" in the superlative, metaphysical sense, such as 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 therefrom, involves nothing less than to be precisely this CAUSA SUI, and, with more than Munchausen daring, to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the slough of nothingness. (sich selbst aus dem Sumpf des Nichts an den Haaren ins Dasein zu ziehn)."
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