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Ideas for 'Truth and the Past', 'The Making of a Philosopher' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86'

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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: The absolute necessity of all events contains nothing of a compulsion.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 1[114])
     A reaction: I like to look for necessity-makers behind necessities. So if the event is not necessary because of its cause, where does it come from? Is it that the whole sequence is a unified necessity?