[D66] Conatus

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Ieder wezen probeert in z'n bestaan te volharden, wat Spinoza conatus
noemt en Miguel de Unamuno 'het tragisch levensgevoel'. Tijdens de
avondwandeling liep ik over de Oude Beemden langs de Maas. De
kanovereniging 'Viking' rukte uit. Er voer een schip stroomopwaarts
langs de peddelende vikingers. Het schip heette de Conatus. De kano's
deinsden op de golfslag die de Conatus maakte. De kudde Venlose schapen
op de Oude Beemden werden er niet onrustig van. Op Zondag was de
reuzenoptocht vanwege het 425 jaar bestaan van het Akkermansgilde.
Flujas en Guntrud, de mythische stichters van Venlo, liepen door de
binnenstad. Dolle pret in het stedje van plezeer...


https://www.binnenvaart.eu/motorbeunschip/6322-madjoe.html
https://www.1limburg.nl/met-reuzen-door-de-stad-60-kilo-op-je-nek
https://omroepvenlo.nl/nieuws/artikel/gezellige-drukte-bij-optocht-akkermansgilde

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rene at NUC:~$ describe Flujas li
li:
Dit artikel is gesjreve (of begós) in 't Venloos. Laes hie wie v'r mit
de versjillende saorte Limburgs ómgaon.

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**Bructer Valuas** of in 't kort **Valuas** is de naam van 'nne
legendarische houfman van de Bructeren, oétsloétend bekind van 'n
volksverhaal oét Venlo. De naam zoei ein verbastering kinne zien van
Goliath.
https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuas
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rene at NUC:~$ describe conatus
en:
innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself
In early philosophies of psychology and metaphysics, **conatus** ( ;
Latin for "effort; endeavor; impulse, inclination, tendency;
undertaking; striving") is an innate inclination of a thing to continue
to exist and enhance itself. This "thing" may be mind, matter, or a
combination of both. Over the millennia, many different definitions and
treatments have been formulated. Seventeenth-century philosophers René
Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, andThomas Hobbes made
important contributions. The _conatus_ may refer to the instinctive
"will to live" of living organisms or to various metaphysical theories
of motion and inertia. Often the concept is associated with God's will
in a pantheist view of Nature. The concept may be broken up into
separate definitions for the mind and body and split when discussing
centrifugal force and inertia.

The history of the term _conatus_ is that of a series of subtle tweaks
in meaning and clarifications of scope developed over the course of two
and a half millennia. Successive philosophers to adopt the term put
their own personal twist on the concept, each developing the term
differently. The earliest authors to discuss _conatus_ wrote primarily
in Latin, basing their usage on ancient Greek concepts. These thinkers
therefore used " _conatus_ " not only as a technical term but as a
common word and in a general sense. In archaic texts, the more technical
usage is difficult to discern from the more common one, and they are
also hard to differentiate in translation. In English translations, the
term is italicized when used in the technical sense or translated and
followed by _conatus_ in brackets. Today, _conatus_ is rarely used in
the technical sense, since modern physics uses concepts such as inertia
and conservation of momentum that have superseded it. It has, however,
been a notable influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers
such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Louis Dumont.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conatus
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