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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.

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  1. Hegel (Notes) Avatar
    Hegel (Notes)

    [zu § 11] I find myself determined thus and so; – have these drives – also physical needs, eating and drinking – must, necessity, like the animal –
    Whether sensuous drives, only toward sensation – or of a spiritual nature – compassion, – honor, fame –
    The content of the drives and inclinations occurs later as duties and rights – duties for the subject, rights in and for themselves – Their content asserts itself. 62
    Drives, admittedly, the essentially outer [?] form of the individ[ual as] conscious[ness].
    I different from the determinacy of these drives – they natural – determinate, each appears as independent – too.

  2. Eduard Gans (Additions) Avatar
    Eduard Gans (Additions)

    The animal too has drives, desires, inclinations, but the animal has no will and must obey the drive unless something external holds it back. The human being, however, stands as the wholly undetermined above the drives and can determine and posit them as his own. The drive lies in nature, but that I posit it in this I depends on my will, which therefore cannot appeal to the fact that it lies in nature.

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