This assumption arises because I have to posit myself absolutely as active, and, since I have distinguished something subjective and something objective within myself, I cannot describe this activity otherwise than as the causality of a concept Absolute activity is the one predicate that belongs to me purely and simply and immediately; the one and only possible way of presenting such a concept of absolute activity and the way that is rendered necessary by the laws of consciousness, is as causality by means of a concept Absolute activity in this shape is also called freedom.