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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| description | 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’ and, the ‘eternal’ is analyzed in three conative ‘myths’ – ‘eros’ in Plato’s Symposium, ‘cura’ in Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit, and ‘Geist’ in Scheler’s Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b484ce3dc3154c80ac8d2c50376182e72022-12-22T02:11:31ZengThe NKUA Applied Philosophy Research LaboratoryConatus - Journal of Philosophy2653-93732459-38422021-12-016210.12681/cjp.26714The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of MeaningBeatrice Sasha Kobow0Universität LeipzigThe 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’ and, the ‘eternal’ is analyzed in three conative ‘myths’ – ‘eros’ in Plato’s Symposium, ‘cura’ in Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit, and ‘Geist’ in Scheler’s Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos.https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/26714erosexistentialismplatonismtranscendentalfeminist critique |
| spellingShingle | Beatrice Sasha Kobow The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning Conatus - Journal of Philosophy eros existentialism platonism transcendental feminist critique |
| title | The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning |
| title_full | The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning |
| title_fullStr | The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning |
| title_short | The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning |
| title_sort | erotic and the eternal striving for the permanence of meaning |
| topic | eros existentialism platonism transcendental feminist critique |
| url | https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/26714 |
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