Subject: Re: PB and New Concepts
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 98 16:04:55 +0100
From: John Evans <jevans-AT-tinet.ie>


Hi!

I think "conatus" is a term of Spinoza's, referring to an organism's 
attempt to persist in its own being.  The operational effect of habitus 
(or conatus) is as a sort of active inertia (!)

I am writing something at the minute about the relationship between 
conatus and Piaget's notion of equilibration.

Best Wishes,

John Evans
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