ABSTRACT
The objective reality of adequate idea is in each case conceived through its formal reality, or the quality and immediate intuition through which the order of being is intuited. However, the idea only appears to look out to an external reality, when things appear to the mind in the order of the imagination. An assertion, a desire or a resolve, as a relational reality of the subject of self-reflection, enters no more into the system of perspectives conceived through thought than into the same system conceived through extension or any other attribute. The reality determined through desire as the good is, thus, the same self-determining reality of the rational nature as is conceived through any of the other attributes. Whereas extension determines the relational reality of substance insofar as it is spacial, thought, insofar as it is rational, the attribute of desire determines it insofar as it is good.
