Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be moreto be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinozas notion of conatus and Hobbess identification of a perpetual and restless desire of power after power. In this new book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from ...
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Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be moreto be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinozas notion of conatus and Hobbess identification of a perpetual and restless desire of power after power. In this new book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation.
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