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¹³ Ibid., pp. 35,45,50. This is undertaken specifically in terms of a critique of the concept of the causa sui. Nietzsche alternately calls this concept a “fiction,”“absurd,” and “logical rape.”

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⁴⁹ Ironically, Nietzsche points to this lack of perspective as well. Pondering Zarathustra's “Death of God” pronouncement, he muses: “Who gave us the sponge to wipe up the whole horizon?”