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The will which is at first free only in itself is the immediate or natural will. The determinations of the difference, which the self-determining concept posits in the will, appear in the immediate will as an immediately present content – these are the drives, desires, [and] inclinations, by which the will finds itself determined by nature. This content, along with its developed determinations, stems indeed from the rationality of the will and is thus rational in itself, but let loose in such a form of immediacy, it is not yet in the form of rationality. This content is indeed, for me, mine in general; but this form and that content are still different, – the will is thus a will that is finite within itself.

Empirical psychology recounts and describes these drives and inclinations and the needs based upon them, as it finds them, or supposes it finds them, in experience, and seeks in the usual manner to classify this given material. What the objective aspect of these drives is, and how it is in its truth without the form of irrationality in which it is a drive, and how it is at the same time configured in its existence, will be discussed below.