This view, like the ideas Vorstelltm of the monarch as the first servant of the state/ of a contractual relationship between monarch and people, etc., bases itself on the will in the sense of the caprice, opinion, and arbitrariness of the matlY a determination which, as we noticed some time ago, is of primary importance in civil society (or merely seeks to assert itself as such), but is not the basic principle of the family, let alone of the state, and is completely opposed to the Idea of ethical life.