Conatus, the Will to Persist: An Introduction

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-28-2021

Publication Title

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy

Volume

6

Issue

2

First page number:

9

Last page number:

26

Abstract

The papers collected in this issue address a variety of aspects of the concept of conatus ranging from the explorations of its roots in early ancient Greek thought to its application on modern theories of democratic education. The conatus is a special relation between the parts of a monad and their subparts and the subparts of the subparts to infinity, which ensures that each part and subpart is a part of this monad and not of any other. As a fundamental trait of monadic existence, the conatus is manifested in a multiplicity of facets that sustain the persistence of any real existence. It is thus obvious that there is still a vast field of such manifestations of conatus that awaits philosophical exploration, especially in the realms of Social Ontology and of the Philosophy of Nature.

Keywords

Conatus; Dasein; Democracy; Education; Erotic; Ethics; Existence; Happiness; Hormé; Inertia; Monad; Perception; Persistence; Streben; Will

Controlled Subject

Democracy; Education; Ethics; Perception

Disciplines

Metaphysics | Philosophy

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