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If we define this particularising ([b] §6) further, we reach a
distinction in the forms of the will. (a) In so far as the definite
character of the will consists in the formal opposition of the
subjective to the objective or external direct existence, we have the
formal will as a self consciousness which finds an outer world before
it. The process by which individuality turns back in its definiteness
into itself, is the translation of the subjective end, through the
intervention of an activity and a means, into objectivity. In the
absolute spirit, in which all definite character is thoroughly its own
and true (Encyclopaedia. §440), consciousness is only one side, namely,
the manifestation or appearance of the will, a phase which does not
require detailed consideration here.

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