That which is known as the empirical character, through the necessary development in time, and the division into particular actions that is conditioned by it, is, when we abstract from this temporal form of the manifestation the intelligible character, according to the expression of Kant, who shows his undying merit especially in establishing this distinction and explaining the relation between freedom and necessity, i.e., between the will as thing-in-itself and its manifestations in time.(38) Thus the intelligible character coincides with the Idea, or, more accurately, with the original act of will which reveals itself in it.
nahi izate osoaren autoezabaketaren bitartez). Beharrezko garapenaren bitartez denboran eta horrek baldintzaturiko atalkatzearen bitartez egintza partikularretan karakter enpiriko gisa ezagutzen dena, agerpenaren denborazko forma horren abstrakzioarekin, Kanten adierazmoldearen arabera karakter inteligiblea da, zeinak desberdintasun horren eta askatasunaren eta beharrezkotasunaren arteko harremanaren aurkezpenaren berri eman izanak, h. d. berbaitango gauza gisa nahimenaren eta denborako bere agerpenaren artekoak propioki, bere meritu hilezkorra bikaintasun bereziz erakusten baitu. Karakter inteligiblea bat dator ideiarekin edo propiokiago: