It's a tangled mess of moments that don't even seem to belong in the same genre, that keeping changing depending on what you choose to highlight. Either everything seems important or nothing does. You thought you were following the arc of the story, but you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don't understand. You know how this story is going to end, but you're still eager to skip ahead, dying to know what happens next.īut there are times when you look up and realize that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. You trace each thread back to its origin, finding omens and ironies scattered along the way, until it all feels inevitable, and your life makes sense. So you look back and highlight certain moments as important, as turning points to the plot. The days flip past, too quickly to absorb, a mess of seemingly random events. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Your life is a story. Often the concept is associated with God's. The conatus may refer to the instinctive "will to live" of living organisms or to various metaphysical theories of motion and inertia. Seventeenth-century philosophers René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and Gottfried Leibniz, and their Empiricist contemporary Thomas Hobbes made important contributions. Over the millennia, many different definitions and treatments have been formulated by philosophers. This "thing" may be mind, matter or a combination of both. Excerpt: Conatus (Latin for effort endeavor impulse, inclination, tendency undertaking striving) is a term used in early philosophies of psychology and metaphysics to refer to an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself. Chapters: Greek philosophical phrases, Latin philosophical phrases, Modus ponens, Modus tollens, Proof by contradiction, Cogito ergo sum, Prima facie, Ad hominem, Q.E.D., Tabula rasa, Non sequitur, Homo economicus, Conatus, Monogenēs, A priori and a posteriori, Ceteris paribus, Formulaic communication, Know thyself, Existence precedes essence, List of alternative names for the human species, Tempora mutantur, Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas, Festina lente, Credo quia absurdum, Mind over matter, Bite the bullet, Homo homini lupus, Natura non facit saltus, Sub specie aeternitatis, Sensus communis, Reductio ad absurdum, Bellum omnium contra omnes, Argumentum ad lapidem, I know that I know nothing, Language speaks, Anima mundi, Homo reciprocans, De se, Pertransit benefaciendo, Ipso facto, Hypotheses non fingo, Ad nauseam, Argumentum ad crumenam, Argumentum ad lazarum, Docendo discimus, Natura naturans, School of suspicion, Pro hominem, Contra vim mortis non crescit herba in hortis, Ab ovo, Eo ipso, Ipso jure, Causa sui, Natura naturata, Barba non facit philosophum, Socratici viri. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
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