>>3776467The whole content of Nature, the collective sum of its phenomena, is ... necessary, and the necessity ... can always be proved, because it must be possible to find the reason from which it follows as a consequent.
This admits of no exception: it follows from the unrestricted validity of the principle of sufficient reason.
In another aspect, however, this same world is for us, in all its phenomena, the objectivity of will.
And the will, since it is not phenomenon ... is not subordinate to the principle of sufficient reason,
which is the universal form of all object... is not determined as a consequent through any reason, and knows no necessity, i.e., the will is absolutely free.
