# Conatus

- Id: `conatus`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/conatus/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `0e4b74e4e0d8e8c3cbc7d1543e23ee30377e943dc2663adca636c17951258c62`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:spinoza.ethics_fr:section-0197",
    "passage:zeno.svf_1:scan-094",
    "passage:seneca.epistulae_morales:85.34"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "conatus",
    "effort pour persévérer",
    "striving to persist"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 33,
    "passages": 624,
    "thinkers": 9,
    "traditions": 5
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
        "author": "Carneades",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/carneades/ancient-testimonia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chrysippus.svf_2",
        "title": "SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and Physics",
        "author": "Chrysippus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/chrysippus/svf-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chrysippus.svf_3",
        "title": "SVF III: Chrysippus on Ethics",
        "author": "Chrysippus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/chrysippus/svf-3/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.academica",
        "title": "Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/academica/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.brutus",
        "title": "Brutus, or On Eminent Orators",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/brutus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.catilinarians",
        "title": "Catilinarian Orations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/catilinarians/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_atticus",
        "title": "Letters to Atticus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-atticus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_friends",
        "title": "Letters to Friends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-friends/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.lucullus",
        "title": "Lucullus, Book Two of the Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/lucullus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_divinatione",
        "title": "On Divination",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-divinatione/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_officiis",
        "title": "On Duties",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-officiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_finibus",
        "title": "On Ends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-finibus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_amicitia",
        "title": "On Friendship",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-amicitia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_oratore",
        "title": "On the Orator",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-oratore/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_natura_deorum",
        "title": "On the Nature of the Gods",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-natura-deorum/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.orator",
        "title": "Orator",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/orator/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.philippics",
        "title": "Philippics",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/philippics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.consolatio_ad_helviam",
        "title": "Consolation to Helvia, His Mother",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/consolatio-ad-helviam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_beneficiis",
        "title": "On Benefits",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-beneficiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_brevitate_vitae",
        "title": "On the Shortness of Life",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-brevitate-vitae/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_ira",
        "title": "On Anger",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-ira/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_tranquillitate_animi",
        "title": "On Tranquillity of Mind",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-tranquillitate-animi/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.ethics_en",
        "title": "Ethics, English Manifestation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/ethics-en/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.ethics_fr",
        "title": "Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/ethics-fr/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_contra_gentiles",
        "title": "Summa Contra Gentiles",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-contra-gentiles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    },
    {
        "id": "zeno.svf_1",
        "title": "Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta I: Zeno of Citium",
        "author": "Zeno of Citium",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/zeno/svf-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "bible.old_testament",
        "title": "The Bible: Old Testament",
        "author": "Biblical traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/biblical-traditions/the-bible-old-testament/"
    },
    {
        "id": "bible.new_testament",
        "title": "The Bible: New Testament",
        "author": "Biblical traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/biblical-traditions/the-bible-new-testament/"
    }
]
```