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The further determination of particularization (β. § 6) constitutes the difference between the forms of the will: a) insofar as the determinacy is the formal opposition of the subjective and objective as an external, immediate existence, this is the formal will as self-consciousness, which finds an external world before it and, as the individuality returning into itself within its determinacy, is the process of translating the subjective purpose into objectivity through the mediation of activity and a means. In spirit as it is in and for itself—within which determinacy is simply its own and true (Encyclop., § 363)—the relationship of consciousness constitutes only the side of the appearance of the will, which is no longer considered here on its own account.