The Faculty of Desire

The faculty of desire presupposes a representation which determines the will. But this time, can it be sufficient to invoke the existence of a priori representations for the synthesis of the will and of the representation to be itself a priori? The problem here is really quite different. In order for the latter to attain its higher form, the representation must cease to be a representation of an object, even an a priori one. It must be the representation of a pure form. Then the faculty of desire no longer finds its law outside itself in content or in an object, but in itself it is said to be autonomous. This is the categorical imperative. Just stated differently.