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[c] The will is the unity of these two elements. It is particularity
turned back within itself and thus led back to universality; it is
individuality; it is the self-direction of the I. Thus at one and the same
time it establishes itself as its own negation, that is to say, as definite
and limited, and it also abides by itself, in its self-identity and
universality, and in this position remains purely self-enclosed. The I
determines itself in so far as it is the reference of negativity to itself ;
and yet in this self-reference it is indifferent to its own definite
character. This it knows as its own, that is, as an ideal or a mere
possibility, by which it is not bound, but rather exists in it merely
because it establishes itself there. This is the freedom of the will,
constituting its conception or substantive reality. It is its gravity, as it
were, just as gravity is the substantive reality of a body.

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