https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conatus
https://www.airitilibrary.com/Article/Detail/10158383-202209-202209020007-202209020007-109-125
an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself.
conatus 就是自我保存 （self preservation）；negativity 就是自我顛覆，自我否定，
Thus it seems that Hegel’s reading of Spinoza presents us with two emphatic alternatives: either Spinozism or loss of any philosophical standpoint worthy of this name—it is only through Spinozism that the substance and the absolute can be taken seriously; but then this leads to another emphatic choice: either the Spinozist substance that cannot embrace negativity, a substance that is not and cannot become a subject, or the proposition that “substance is subject.” Either conatus or self-othering.
Mladen Dolar (2017) Foreword: Hegel or Spinoza? Yes, Please! In HEGEL AND SPINOZA: Substance and Negativity, by Gregor Moder, Northwestern University Press, 2017, p. x
