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FOURTH CLASS OP OBJECTS FOE THE SUBJECT. 169
those movements of our inner man, which are subsumed
under the wide conception of feeling, are states of the
will.
Now, the identity of the willing with the knowing Sub
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ject, in virtue of which the word I includes and desig
nates both, is the nodus 1 of the Universe, and therefore
inexplicable. For we can only comprehend relations be
tween Objects ;,but two Objects never can be one, except
ing as parts of a whole. Here, where the Subject is in
question, the rules by which we know Objects are no longer
applicable, and actual identity of the knower with what is
known as willing that is, of Subject and Object is imme
diately given.
Now, whoever has clearly realized the utter
impossibility of explaining this identity, will surely concur
with me in calling it the miracle KUT t&yyv.
Just as the Understanding is the subjective correlate
to our First Class of representations, the Reason to the
Second, and pure Sensibility to the Third, so do we find
that the correlate to this Fourth Class is the inner sense,
or Self-consciousness in general.
43. Willing. The Law of Motives (Motivation).
It is just because the willing Subject is immediately
given in self-consciousness, that we are unable further to
define or to describe what willing is ; properly speaking, it
one whose im-
is the most direct knowledge we have, nay,
mediateness must finally throw light upon every other
knowledge, as being very mediate.
At every resolution that we take ourselves, or that we
Bee others take, we deem ourselves justified in asking,
why ? That is, we assume that something must have pre
viously occurred, from which this resolution has resulted,
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