The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning

The paper presents three conceptions of ‘conatus’ that show the will to persist as being connected to the individual’s participating in a culture or other collective entity and which present human striving as transcending mere biological givenness. The human strife as a movement between the ‘erotic’...

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Main Author: Beatrice Sasha Kobow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory 2021-12-01
Series:Conatus - Journal of Philosophy
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Online Access:https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/26714