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The system of this content, as it finds itself immediately present in the will, exists only as a multitude and manifold of drives, each of which is mine in general alongside others, and is at the same time a universal and indeterminate entity that has various objects and modes of satisfaction. [In] that the will gives itself the form of singularity (§ 7) in this twofold indeterminacy, it is a resolving will, and only as a resolving will in general is it an actual will.

Instead of resolving upon something, i.e., sublating the indeterminacy in which the one content as well as the other is initially only a possible one, our language also has the expression: to resolve oneself cf. “But the absolute freedom of the idea is that it does not merely pass over into life, nor as finite cognition let life shine within itself, but in the absolute truth of itself resolves to freely release out of itself the moment of its particularity or of the first determining and otherness, the immediate idea as its reflection, as nature.“ (§ 244 Enc. 1830) [sich entschließen], in that the indeterminacy of the will itself, as the neutral but infinitely fertilized entity, the primal germ of all existence, contains the determinations and purposes within itself and brings them forth only out of itself.