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§ 7
When it is a matter in general of spirit receiving determinations, the indeterminacy of the I or of spirit is presupposed. The determinations of spirit belong to it, even if it has received them from other objects. Insofar as something in it does not come from it, as a content independent of it, the form nevertheless always belongs to it therein; e.g. in imagination the material indeed comes from intuition, but the form consists in the way in which this material has been connected otherwise than it was originally present in intuition. In a pure representation, e.g. that of the animal, the determinate content belongs to experience, but the universal in it is the form that comes from spirit.
This form is thus the own determining of spirit. In the theoretical faculty it makes the essential difference that only the form lies in the determining of spirit, whereas in the practical the content too comes from spirit. In right, e.g., the content is personal freedom. This belongs to spirit. The practical faculty cognizes determinations as its own insofar as it wills them at all. Even if they appear as alien determinations or as given, they must cease to be alien determinations insofar as I will them. I transform the content into myself, posit it through myself.
§ 8
The theoretical faculty begins from something existent, present, external and makes it into a representation. The practical, on the other hand, begins from an inward determination. This is called resolution, intention, direction, and makes the inward actually external, gives it an existence. This passing over from an inward determination to externality is called acting.
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