 Although Maimon’s account of freedom is related to Kant’s position, Maimon diverges from the critical philosophy by insisting that since the moral law provides only the form of the determination of the will, the actualization of this form “must be connected to an originally agreeable feeling (which does not arise from habit).” (GW VII 243 | KU 241) This feeling, Maimon argues, must be understood not in terms of a particular sensuous desire, but rather as “abstracted from all individuality.” (GW VII 245 | KU 243) Here the close connection between the theoretical and the practical spheres is again important, for Maimon argues that the ‘abstract feeling’ is best understood in terms of a ‘drive for cognition’: