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Philosophical concept

Conatus

Conatus is the striving by which each thing perseveres in its being and affirms its own power.

Works
33
Passages
624
Thinkers
9
Traditions
5

Understand uses of the concept

Conatus is the striving by which each thing perseveres in its being and affirms its own power.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 624 passages across 33 works, including Ancient testimonia on Carneades, SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and Physics, SVF III: Chrysippus on Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: conatus, effort pour persévérer, striving to persist

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  2. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  3. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  4. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  5. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  6. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  7. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  8. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  9. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  10. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  11. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  12. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  13. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  14. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  15. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  16. OratorCicero · 0 passages
  17. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  18. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
  19. Consolation to Helvia, His MotherSeneca · 0 passages
  20. On BenefitsSeneca · 0 passages
  21. On the Shortness of LifeSeneca · 0 passages
  22. On AngerSeneca · 0 passages
  23. On Tranquillity of MindSeneca · 0 passages
  24. Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca · 0 passages
  25. Ethics, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza · 261 passages
  26. Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French TranslationBaruch Spinoza · 300 passages
  27. Summa Contra GentilesThomas Aquinas · 0 passages
  28. Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 0 passages
  29. Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta I: Zeno of CitiumZeno of Citium · 0 passages
  30. The Bible: Old TestamentBiblical traditions · 0 passages