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22. So far as they do coincide, man may be said to be 'free' and his will to be 'autonomous'

23. The growing organisation of human life provides a medium for the embodiment, and disciplines the natural impulses for the reception, of the idea of perfection

24. The reconciliation of reason and will takes place as the individual more and more finds his own self-satisfaction in meeting the requirements of established morality

25. Until these come to be entirely superseded by the desire of perfection for its own sake, and his will becomes really free.

A. The grounds of political obligation.

1. Subject of the inquiry

2. Its connection with the general theory of morals. Ideal goodness is to do good for its own sake: but there must be acts considered good on other grounds before they can be done for the sake of their goodness

3. When, however, the ideal comes to be recognised as the ideal, the lower interests and rules must be criticised and revised by it