Essentialism ensures that the accumulated wisdom of our civilization as taught in the traditional academic disciplines is passed on from teacher to student.

Essentialism is the most typically enacted philosophy in American classrooms today.

However, because Essentialism is largely teacher-centered, the role of the student is often called into question.

Essentialism, in its broadest sense, is any philosophy that acknowledges the primacy of Essence.

Because Essentialism is a conceptual worldview that is not dependent on objective facts and measurements, it is not limited to empirical understanding or the objective way of looking at things.

Possibly the clearest definition for this philosophy was offered by gay / lesbian rights advocate Diana Fuss, who wrote: " Essentialism is most commonly understood as a belief in the real, true essence of things, the invariable and fixed properties which define the ' whatness ' of a given entity ".

Essentialism is used by some historians in listing essential cultural characteristics of a particular nation or culture.

Aristotelian Essentialism is concerned with properties which Marcus defines in the context of a modal framework.

* Nader El-Bizri, " Avicenna and Essentialism ," Review of Metaphysics, Vol.

* Mahalingam, Ramaswami ; " Essentialism, Culture, and Power: Representations of Social Class " Journal of Social Issues, Vol.

Despite the metaphysical basis for the term, academics in science, aesthetics, heuristics, psychology, and gender-based sociological studies have advanced their causes under the banner of Essentialism.

Essentialism has emerged as an important concept in psychology, particularly developmental psychology.

Classical Essentialism claims that some things are wrong in an absolute sense, for example murder breaks a universal, objective and natural moral law and not merely an adventitious, socially or ethically constructed one.

* Sayer, Andrew ( August 1997 ) " Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and Beyond ", Sociological Review 45: 456.

* Oderberg, David S. ( 2007 ) Real Essentialism New York, Routledge.

Brian David Ellis has categorized more recent efforts as the " New Essentialism.

" Home Is a Matter of Blood, Time, and Genre: Essentialism in Burnett and McKinley.

*" How Not to Derive Essentialism From the Theory of Reference " ( 1979 ) Journal of Philosophy 76: 703-725.

Essentialism refers to the practice of generalizing about all women ( or any group ) as though they were essentially the same.

Essentialism obscures the diversity that exists among women.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

The relatively long and often colorful selections in this anthology enable the reader to become genuinely absorbed in what is said, whether he responds with anger or applause.

But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

It is, in fact, a relatively mild chastisement of the dead.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

When towns have the same fiscal year it is relatively easy to make meaningful comparisons ; ;

Another recent achievement was the successful development of a method for the complete combustion in a bomb calorimeter of a metal in fluorine when the product is relatively non-volatile.

In the daytime, on the other hand, since skywave transmission is relatively inefficient, it is possible to assign a substantially larger number of stations on these channels.

Because the bobbin-to-cone winding process is a relatively high-cost operation for the mill, the almost complete automation provided by the Uniconer can mean important economies in textile production, at the same time upgrading quality.

It is relatively easy to go a step further and reason that an attacker, in possession of such absolute power, would simultaneously destroy his opponent's cities and people.

A relatively simple switching arrangement reverses the cycle so that the machine literally runs backward, and the heat is extracted from outdoor air and turned indoors.

Although the standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.

But even in relatively primitive laboratory animals such as the rat, sex activity closely identified with the hypothalamus and the visceral brain is enhanced by the neocortex.

The society is likely to be characterized by having a fairly modernized urban sector and a relatively untouched rural sector, with very poor communications between the two.

Related to this is the fact that most of the higher religions define for the individual his place in the universe and give him a feeling that he is relatively secure in an ordered, dependable universe.

Although the Brandywine population is still predominantly rural, `` there are indications of a consistent and a statistically significant trend away from the older and relatively isolated rural communities.

In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.

Spontaneity training theory is unique and relatively new.

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

This relatively high value is probably due to the small fiber diameters increasing the number of internal reflections.

What is noteworthy about this large group of teen-agers is that, although their attitudes hardly differentiate them from their gentile counterparts, they actually lead their lives in a vast self-enclosed Jewish cosmos with relatively little contact with the non-Jewish world.