@article{Kirby_2021, title={The Organic Roots of Conatus in Early Greek Thought}, volume={6}, url={https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/26601}, DOI={10.12681/cjp.26601}, abstractNote={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. I hope to offer a plausible account of how the earliest recorded views on this subject in mythological, pre-Socratic, and Classical writings might have inspired later philosophical developments by establishing the foundations for an organic, wholly naturalized approach to human inquiry. Three pillars of that approach which I wish to emphasize are: practical intelligence (i.e., a continuity between knowing and doing), natural normativity (i.e., a continuity between human norms and the environment), and an ontology of philosophical dialectic (i.e., a continuity between the growth of human understanding and the growth of physis).}, number={2}, journal={Conatus - Journal of Philosophy}, author={Kirby, Christopher}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={29–49} }