actualem

Updated: June 16, 2025

And in the following proposition, the seventh, of the same part, he adds: conatus, quo unaquoeque res in suo esse perseverare conatur, nihil est proeter ipsius rei actualem essentiam that is, the endeavour wherewith everything endeavours to persist in its own being is nothing but the actual essence of the thing itself.

Miguel de Unamuno - Tragic Sense Of Life