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The finite will, as the infinite I (§ 5) which reflects into itself and is with itself only on the side of form, stands above the content—the distinct drives—as well as above the further individual ways of their realization and satisfaction; at the same time, as something only formally infinite, it is bound to this content as the determinations of its nature and its external reality, yet, as something indeterminate, not bound to this or that specific content (§ 6, 11). |25| For the reflection of the I into itself, this content is therefore only a possible one—to be mine or not—and I am the possibility of determining myself to this or to another—of choosing among these determinations which, from this point of view, are external to the I.

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  1. Hegel (Encyclopedia 1817) Avatar
    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1817)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1817), § 395:

    § 395. Interest, however, is here not yet as the merely formal activity or pure subjectivity, but has as drive or inclination a content determined by the immediate will. The dialectic of this manifold particular content, however, is the simple subjectivity of the will itself, which raises the contradiction of the drives, at first as reflecting will, into formal universality and 3) makes happiness its purpose.

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    Hegel (Notes)

    [zu § 14] Activity and manner of the will. Insight, not a magnet or the drive of a wild animal.
    Cannot hold itself in abs[olute] immediacy of form and content – but rather separation.
    Content dependent – is only my content by means of the will.
    Formal mediation lies immediately in the will. The content is mine, because I will it, – more particularly, what lies in this willing – Not 2 particulars in this separation; the one is the universal, I – the other the particular –
    1. Universality, I – 2. Particularity, determinacy.
    Path of the going-out – at first only relation to universality.

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    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1827)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1827), § 477:

    § 477. Interest and drive or inclination have a particular content determined by the will. The simple subjectivity of the will stands at the same time above this its manifold content and the contradiction of the drives. It is thus determined as thinking, and, in that thought has before it only that manifold content, as reflecting will, and hence as arbitrary will. In that the latter makes the universality of the drives its purpose over against their limited particularity, it is the drive towards happiness.

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    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1830)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1830), § 476:

    § 476. The will as thinking and free in itself distinguishes itself from the particularity of the drives and places itself as the simple subjectivity of thinking above their manifold content; it is thus reflecting will.

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