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sense of the inferiority of the actual to the ideal." x 

 But the animal impulse ceases to be merely animal 

 when it is determined by self-consciousness. 2 



Self-satisfaction is the form of every object willed 

 by man whether as in the highest life self-satisfac- 

 tion is sought in the realizing of a vocation, or as 

 in the vicious life in pleasure. 8 



Will, then, is "the man's direction of himself 

 to the realization of a conceived or imagined 



1 Sully, Outlines of Psychology, p. 578. 



2 Cf. Green's Prolegomena to Ethics, p. 95. "The motive is 

 not made up of an (animal) want and self-consciousness, any more 

 than life of chemical processes and vital ones. It is one and indi- 

 visible ; but, indivisible as it is, it results, as perception results, 

 from the determination of an animal nature by a self-conscious 

 subject other than it ; so results, however, that the animal condition 

 does not survive in the result." 



3 Cf. Green's Prolegomena to Ethics, pp. 182-184. From 

 this characteristic of being an object to himself "arises the impulse 

 which becomes the source, according to the direction it takes, both 

 of vice and virtue. It is the source of vicious self-seeking and self- 

 assertion, so far as the spirit which is in man seeks to satisfy itself 

 or to realize its capabilities in modes in which ... its self-satisfac- 

 tion or self-realization is not to be found. ... It is one and the 

 same principle of his nature . . . which makes it possible for the 

 voluptuary to seek satisfaction, and thus to live for pleasure, at all, 

 and which according to the law of its being, according to its inherent 

 capability, makes it impossible that the self-satisfaction should be 

 found in any succession of pleasures. . . . And hence the differentia 

 of the virtuous life, proceeding as it does from the same self- 

 objectifying principle which we have just characterized as the source 

 of the vicious life, is that it is governed by the consciousness of 

 there being some perfection which has to be attained, some vocation 

 which has to be fulfilled, some law which has to be obeyed, some- 

 thing absolutely desirable, whatever the individual may for the 

 time desire ; that it is in ministering to such an end that the agent 

 seeks to satisfy himself." 



