Comentário ao artigo "O conatus é sempre imaginativo"
Referência do artigo comentado: Rodrigues, J. L. O conatus imaginativo em Espinosa: a produção da contingência e da ideia de finalidade. Trans/Form/Ação: revista de filosofia da Unesp, vol. 44, n. 1, p. 205-244, 2021.
Fernando Dias Andrade
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SPINOZA’S UNDERSTANDING OF ‘CONATUS’ AND EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS: TWO APPROACHES FOR SEARCH OF THE SOURCE OF MORALITY [PDF]
In this paper, two ethical theories are discussed: Spinozistic ethics and evolutionary ethics. The reason for evaluating these theories is because both of them start with the very same question: “what is good?” and they both underlie the importance of ...
Bilge Sever Kıyak
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“Conatus” is a Latin word that is often translated as “endeavor” and “striving” and, by some authors, taken as a synonym of “tendency.” Deriving from a concept discontinuously used within late-scholastic theory of gravitation, the conatus acquired relevance in the thoughts of early modern philosophers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Huygens, Spinoza, and ...
Rodolfo Garau, Garau Rodolfo
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The Organic Roots of Conatus in Early Greek Thought [PDF]
The focus of this paper will be on the earliest Greek treatments of impulse, motivation, and self-animation – a cluster of concepts tied to the hormē-conatus concept.
Christopher Kirby
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At War in Swaddling Clothes: Stirner’s Unique One as a Conative Existence [PDF]
In its simplest and primary sense, conatus is about self-preservation. It further involves the obligation, the duty, the imperative even, deriving from the Law of Nature for man to do whatever within his power to maintain his life.
Kostas Galanopoulos
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Late-scholastic and Cartesianconatus [PDF]
Conatus (“striving”) is a specific concept within Descartes's physics. In particular, it assumes a crucial importance in the purely mechanistic description of the nature of light – an issue that De...
Garau, R., Garau, Rodolfo
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Staying With the Trouble in Nursing 12.5 Hours at a Time. [PDF]
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a reconceptualisation of clinical care as a site from which philosophy is produced, rather than a domain to which it is applied. Centreing on a speculative vignette drawn from emergency nursing, I introduce the concept of the event of nursing to name those moments where relational, material, and institutional forces exceed ...
Smith JB.
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The Inverted Circuit: Attribution, Answerability, and Accountability in Canadian Health Governance. [PDF]
Policy Points Canada and the United States have not failed for want of accountability mechanisms in health governance. They have failed because accountability is repeatedly invoked where attribution and answerability are not already standing, so the result is the punishment of visible individuals rather than structural correction.
Menkis AH.
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The meanings of succession in a family business: an analysis from Bourdieu’s conatus concept
Succession is one of the most studied topics in family business research. However, most of the research focuses on exploring the instrumental, objective dimension of these processes, paying little attention to the subjective, emotional, and affective ...
Carolina Lescura Carvalho de Castro Volta +2 more
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Baseline Alkaline Phosphatase Impacts Response Rates in Primary Biliary Cholangitis: Exploring Response to Elafibranor in ELATIVE. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background & Aims Baseline alkaline phosphatase (ALP) levels can influence the likelihood of achieving dichotomous biochemical response criteria in primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). This concept was explored using Week 52 data from the phase III ELATIVE trial (NCT04526665), which assessed elafibranor, a peroxisome proliferator‐activated ...
Levy C +7 more
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