conatus

There is a traditional connection between conatus and motion itself.

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The conatus is to motion as a point is to space.

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The conatus is just the tendency of bodies to move when they collide with each other.

Conversely, a person is saddened by anything that opposes his conatus.

It is "a measure of the conatus exercised by a moving body over the course of time".

Some Spinoza scholars take this phrase to mean that a thing is ultimately nothing more than a conatus.

Spinoza's view of the relationship between the conatus and the human affects is not clear.

These thinkers therefore used "conatus" not only as a technical term but as a common word and in a general sense.

Likewise, conatus was used by many philosophers to describe other concepts which have slowly been made obsolete.

This conatus is a sort of instantaneous or "virtual" motion that all things possess, even when they are static.

This "will" forms the conatus of a body and its physical manifestation is the perceived "will to survive".

The concept of impetus, as used by Hobbes, is defined in terms of this physical conatus.

Conatus is a central theme in the philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677).

Several other uses of the term conatus, apart from the primary ones mentioned above, have been formulated by various philosophers over the centuries.

"These determinative affections are necessarily the cause of the consciousness of the conatus."

Resistance is caused by a contrary conatus; force is this motion plus "the magnitude of the body".

For example, an action is "free", for Spinoza, only if it arises from the essence and conatus of an entity.

Today, the topics with which conatus dealt are matters of science and are thus subject to inquiry by the scientific method.

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As in his psychological theory, Hobbes's physical conatus is an infinitesimal unit of motion.

Hobbes also uses the word conatus to refer to the "restorative forces" which may cause springs, for example, to contract or expand.

Spinoza also uses the term conatus to refer to rudimentary concepts of inertia, as Descartes had earlier.

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