Category: Introduction

The content or determinate phase of will is in the first instancedirect or immediate. Then the will is free only in itself or for us, i.e., itis the will in its conception. Only when it has itself as an object is italso for itself, and its implicit freedom becomes realised.

(b). In so far as the definite phases of will are its own peculiarproperty or its particularisation turned back into itself, they arecontent. This content, as content of the will, is for it, by virtue of theform given in (a), an end, which exists on its inner or subjective sideas the imaginative will, but by…

If we define this particularising ([b] §6) further, we reach adistinction in the forms of the will. (a) In so far as the definitecharacter of the will consists in the formal opposition of thesubjective to the objective or external direct existence, we have theformal will as a self consciousness which finds an outer world beforeit.…