The Concept of Morality Enc. par. 502

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# 502 A distinction has thus emerged between the law (right) and the subjective will. The 'reality' of right,

which the personal will in the first instance gives itself in immediate wise, is seen to be due to the

instrumentality of the subjective will − whose influence as on one hand it gives existence to the essential

right, so may on the other cut itself off from and oppose itself to it. Conversely, the claim of the subjective

will to be in this abstraction a power over the law of right is null and empty of itself: it gets truth and reality

essentially only so far as that will in itself realises the reasonable will. As such it is morality(2) proper.