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means effort, endeavor, impulse, inclination, tendency, undertaking striving; in early philosophies of psychology and metaphysics, is an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself

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conatus



She was thinking of Spinoza's kind of striving, conatus

—p.35 Middlemarch and Everybody (29) by Zadie Smith
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6 years, 10 months ago


The importance of Marx in this connection is that, no doubt for the first time since Spinoza’s conatus (‘effort’), the question of historicity (or of the ‘differential’ of the movement, instability and tension within the present which are carrying it towards its own transformation) is posed in the element of practice

—p.102 Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History? (80) by Étienne Balibar
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6 years, 6 months ago


Spinoza calls ‘conatus’ the effort by which ‘each thing, as far as it can by its own power, strives to persevere in its being.’

—p.1 Making Others Do Something (1) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 8 months ago