He took the philosophical idea of a "conatus" - a striving to continue to exist and thereby to preserve one's essence - as his general principle. From Wordnik.com. [Oz Conservative] Reference
In Spinoza's view, we act virtuously if we act rationally to strive to exist, in accordance with this idea of a "conatus". From Wordnik.com. [Oz Conservative] Reference
In short, Descartes, Leibniz, and Hume "de-anthropomorphized" conatus and causation. From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
The conatus of a moving body was its disposition to continue in motion unless interfered with. From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
When conatus in physics became kinetic energy and momentum, physics ceased to be anthropomorphic. From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
Statim ac eam contemplatus sum, occidi; oculos a virgine avertere conatus sum, sed illi repugnabant. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
In fact it got into seventeenth-century English: the OED defines conatus as "an effort, endeavour, striving.". From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
Every person acts through an innate tendency to persevere in his own being (conatus in suo esse perseverandi). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Corre - spondingly, the conatus constituting the essence of the individual thing can be expressed either as body or as mind. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Nihil infelicius his, quantus iis timor, quanta dubitatio, quantus conatus, quanta solicitudo, nulla illis a molestiis vacua hora. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
There is therefore no “extra factor” such as modern teleologists posit, no “conatus” (innate striving) irreduc - ible to the laws of physics. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
To return to Spinoza and an important Latin word, Damasio repeatedly mentions conatus, which in Spinoza's writings is usually translated as "striving" or "endeavor.". From Wordnik.com. [Minding the Brain] Reference
We might take both his claim that all determinations of extended modes of substance are extrinsically caused by other finite modes and his talk of essence and conatus seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Spinoza's Physical Theory] Reference
Love, a weird combination of your super-ego and your conatus xx. From Wordnik.com. [infinite thØught] Reference
He adds: "Æs magnum tempus, quo id dispungere conatus est, parvum.". From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference
In heaven, with conjugial partners, there is spring in its perpetual conatus, 355. From Wordnik.com. [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference
˜conatus™ to describe the essences of human beings and other finite modes alike. From Wordnik.com. [Spinoza's Psychological Theory] Reference
Moreover, within everything spiritual there is a conatus to clothe itself with a body. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom] Reference
But let application of this be made to living conatus, and to living force, and to living motion. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom] Reference
• Hunc tanta cupiditate incendit bellandi, ut ufque a rubro mati arma conatus fit inferre Italian. From Wordnik.com. [Vitae excellentium imperatorum; cum versione Anglicâ, in quâ verbum de verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditus; notis quoquè Anglicis, [et] indice locupletissimo; or, Lives of the excellent commanders;] Reference
For example, an action is "free", for Spinoza, only if it arises from the essence and conatus of an entity. From Wordnik.com. [Oz Conservative] Reference
It further follows that in all these there is an inmost conatus, the conatus to perform use to the human race. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom] Reference
Here, however, I choose to confirm them only by the conatus, forces and motions in dead and in living subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom] Reference
This tendency brings its activities into play; each power has its proper object, and a conatus pushing it to action. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
When it is said that heat is only the motions of certain molecules, and light the conatus recedendi which we feel, it astonishes us. From Wordnik.com. [Pens��es] Reference
Humphredus Gilbert Eques, Americæ oras Hifpanis incognitas, magno animo viribus, fucceffu non aequali noftris aperire conatus eft. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hariot]
RottboeU p. 55. nouam excogitauit interpretationem, eamque verbis, quae deinceps leguntur: Ji communiter pijunt: confirmare conatus eft. From Wordnik.com. [Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs]..] Reference
This conatus is afterwards continuous from the lands through the root even to outmosts, and from outmosts to firsts, wherein use itself is in its origin. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom] Reference
The image of the Infinite in these forms is plain from their conatus and power to fill the spaces of the whole world, and even of many worlds, to infinity. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom] Reference
The first production from these earthy matters, while they were still new and in their simple state, was production of seed; the first conatus therein could not be any other. From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom] Reference
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