The will, which is at first only implicitly free, is the direct or
natural will. The distinctive phases, which the self-determining
conception sets up in the will, appear in the direct will, as a directly
present content. They are impulses, appetites, inclinations, by which
the will finds itself determined by nature. Now this content, with all
its attendant phases, proceeds from the rationality of the will, and is
therefore implicitly rational; but let loose in its immediate directness it
has not as yet the form of rationality. The content is indeed for me
and my own, but the form and the content are yet different. The will
is thus in itself finite.
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