Activity

there is no need to pass through an ontogenetic hypothesis in order to account for demands for love addressed within social universes such as employment

even aside from this apodictic derivation

Ethics, III, 9 states that, fundamentally, it is in desire’s own investments that the valorisation of things originates

In each person, the valorisation of things, the spontaneous creative activity of the conatus, is structured under the influence of a set of axiological schemes and already constituted valorisations

But this ‘of our own accord’ merely an actantial indication; it has nothing to say about everything that preceded it.