The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning

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Published: Dec 28, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/cjp.26714
Keywords:
eros existentialism platonism transcendental feminist critique
Beatrice Sasha Kobow
Universität Leipzig
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6033-8968
Abstract
The paper presents three conceptions of ‘conatus’ that show the will to persist as being connected to the individual’s participating in a culture or other collective entity and which present human striving as transcending mere biological givenness. The human strife as a movement between the ‘erotic’ and, the ‘eternal’ is analyzed in three conative ‘myths’ – ‘eros’ in Plato’s Symposium, ‘cura’ in Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit, and ‘Geist’ in Scheler’s Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos.
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Beatrice Sasha Kobow, Universität Leipzig
PhD 2005 & Habilitation 2018, Universität Leipzig
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