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b. Will35)
35) In the margin: a) the drive has its own content, purpose; the opposed is it itself, and indeed for it
Cross-reference: Drive and satisfaction § 11 ff.; on the tool and labour § 196; on love and the family § 158 ff.
That which wills wills, i.e. it wills to posit itself, to make itself as itself into its object. It is free, but this freedom is the empty, formal, bad one. It is enclosed within itself, or it is the syllogism within itself; α) it is the universal, purpose; β) [it] is the singular, self, activity, actuality36) γ) it is the middle of these two, the drive;37) it is the two-sided, which has the content, universal, which is purpose, and the active self of the same; the former the ground, the latter the form. α) what the determinate content of the drive is cannot yet be stated here, for it is not yet determined; it has none as yet; for here only the concept of will is posited. Which drives the I has, this emerges only from the content of its world; these are its drives.
36) In the margin: syllogism, magnet in each extreme. The I judges, thus reflected into itself – out of the extreme
37) In the margin: first diremption of the syllogism, indifference of the extremes: in everything self is immediately – activity is its own
β) the determinate way in which that syllogism is posited in the I is such that all moments of it in the self as the universal or the sphere are comprised; now the whole is, and their opposition only empty form for self-consciousness. This is precisely what makes the strength of its syllogism, of its will, that insofar as [it] presents a side outwardly, it is taken back into itself in this side, thereby does not expose a determinacy by which it can be grasped; they are pattes de velour, which are claws against the other, but as he turns against them, he grasps
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