The freedom of the will as thing-in-itself, if, as has been said, we abstract from the entirely exceptional case mentioned above, by no means extends directly to its phenomenon, not even in the case in which this reaches the highest made of its visibility, and thus does not extend to the rational animal endowed with individual character, i.e., the person.
Nahimenaren askatasuna berbaitango gauza gisa, esan dugunez, beti salbuespen bat soilik den goiko kasua alde batera uzten badugu ez da transmititzen, bitartegabe bere agerpenera, ezta horrek ikuskortasunaren mailarik gorena lortzen duen tokian ere, ezta karakter indibiduala duen animalia arrazoidunarengan ere, h. d., pertsonarengan.