TY - JOUR AU - Kobow, Beatrice Sasha PY - 2021/12/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning JF - Conatus - Journal of Philosophy JA - Conatus VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.12681/cjp.26714 UR - https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/26714 SP - 213-236 AB - 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. ER -