For Jason McQuinn " All ideology in essence involves the substitution of alien ( or incomplete ) concepts or images for human subjectivity.

In essence, a study of the world behind the text involves such questions as "... what makes them write the way they do and what realities, truths, and insights they want to share with us.

" In as much as " essence " is a cornerstone of all metaphysical philosophy and the grounding of Rationalism, Sartre's statement was a repudiation of the philosophical system that had come before him ( and, in particular, that of Husserl, Hegel, and Heidegger ).

In essence, the Rede can be fully understood as meaning that one should always follow their true will instead of trying to obtain simple wants and to ensure that following one's will does not harm anyone or anything.

The lives and works of the group members show an overlapping, interconnected similarity of ideas and attitudes that helped to keep the friends and relatives together, reflecting in large part the influence of G. E. Moore: " the essence of what Bloomsbury drew from Moore is contained in his statement that ' one's prime objects in life were love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience and the pursuit of knowledge '".

Living a life defined by one's occupation, social, racial, or economic class, is the very essence of " bad faith ", the condition in which people cannot transcend their situations in order to realize what they must be ( human ) and what they are not ( waiter, grocer, etc ).

While the former is considered indispensable evidence of one's baptism by the Holy Ghost ( as spoken of in Isaiah 28: 11, John 3: 5 ; also Matthew 3: 11, Acts 1: 5, 2: 4, 10: 45 – 46 and 19: 6, according to UPCI doctrine ), the latter gift is not necessarily held by all believers once they have initially spoken in tongues. See under heading " After the Baptism of the Spirit " in Bernard, David K. The incidents of tongues speaking described in Acts, while the same in essence, are different in operation and purpose than the tongues spoken of in I Corinthians 12 – 14.

The key topics of the discourse are the direct perception of one's true nature, and the unity in essence of śīla, dhyāna and prajñā.

In understanding any individual personality, a distinction is made between one's Swadharma ( essence ) and Swabhava ( mental habits and conditionings of ego personality ).

To do one's dharma is to be righteous, to do one's dharma is to do one's duty ( express one's essence ).

Ginastera later said, " You have captured the essence of my music, and no one's ever done that before.

Summum practices " Modern Mummification " and " Transference " as a means to guide one's essence to a greater destination following the death of the body.

" Therefore one's soul comes from the essence of God.

On the trip back, Bane is frustrated by the holocron's gatekeeper's stalling and forcefully uses his power to " hack " the holocron, discovering Darth Andeddu's technique of essence transfer, the ability to transfer one's consciousness into another's body.

* It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow-men ; of considerateness, not to wound their feelings ; and in this the essence of propriety is best seen.

The essence of Tummo Yoga is the recognizing that outer phenomena are the mirror to one's own mind.

For these philosophers, conation was the very essence of the person, for, as Spinoza said, it was through conation that one persevered in one's own being.

Also known as the Testimony of Truth, or Truth Testimony, the essence of the Testimony of Integrity is placing God at the center of one's life.

The essence of testimony to integrity is placing God at the center of one's life.

Striving beyond their adversities and learning to accept differences along the way, these youths learn the fundamental essence of singing, which is to face their true self and sing from within one's heart.

Stigmatization, at its essence is a challenge to one's humanity-for both the stigmatized person and the stigmatizer.

The three main types of monism are physicalism ( which holds that the mind consists of matter organized in a particular way ), idealism ( which holds that only thought truly exists and matter is merely an illusion ), and neutral monism ( which holds that both mind and matter are aspects of a distinct essence that is itself identical to neither of them ).

In classical thought, a definition was taken to be a statement of the essence of a thing.

There are, however, certain esoteric and mystical schools of thought, present in many faiths — Sufis in Islam, Gnostics in Christianity, Advaitan Hindus, Zen Buddhists, as well as several non-specific perspectives developed in new age philosophy — which hold that all humans are in essence divine, or unified with the Divine in a non-trivial way.

[...] We made grindcore a bit easier to listen to at the expense of the diehard grindcore fans who thought that we were, well, not sellouts, but not really true to the original essence of grindcore.

Thought is always a form of abstraction, and thus not only is pure existence impossible to think, but all forms in existence are unthinkable ; thought depends on language, which merely abstracts from experience, thus separating us from lived experience and the living essence of all beings.

" The theory was indebted to Aristotle's pluralism and his concepts of Soul, the rational, living aspect of a living substance which cannot exist apart from the body because it is not a substance but an essence, and nous, rational thought, reflection and understanding.

The Munen Musō-ryū ( No intent, no preconception ) similarly expresses the understanding that the essence of kenjutsu transcends the reflective thought process.

Descartes believed that thought ( subjectivity ) was the essence of the mind, and that extension ( the occupation of space ) was the essence of matter.

The essence of the Socratic method is to convince the interlocutor that whereas he thought he knew something, in fact he does not.

From these opponents of Western civilization derived three neotraditional schools of thought: national essence, national character, and modern relevance of Confucianism.

In contrast, Peggy Noonan feels that sound bites have acquired a negative connotation but are not inherently negative, and that what we now think of as great historical sound bites — such as " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ", the most famous phrase in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address — were examples of eloquent speakers unselfconsciously and " simply trying in words to capture the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

While it was customary for Buddhist works to be written in Chinese, Dōgen often wrote in Japanese, conveying the essence of his thought in a style that was at once concise, compelling, and inspiring.

Although Dattatreya was at first a " Lord of Yoga " exhibiting distinctly Tantric traits, he was adapted and assimilated into the more devotional cults ; while still worshiped by millions of Hindus, he is approached more as a benevolent god than as a teacher of the highest essence of Indian thought.

The religion of Moloch — as such creeds may be generically called — is in essence the cringing submission of the slave, who dare not, even in his heart, allow the thought that his master deserves no adulation.

In essence, " error correction " can be thought of as " using the mathematically encoded backup copies of the data that was corrupted.

In the Chabad writings of Schneur Zalman of Liadi, Hasidut is seen as able to unite all parts of Torah thought, from the schools of philosophy to mysticism, by uncovering the illuminating Divine essence that permeates and transcends all approaches.

Some of the significant achievements of early Muslim philosophers included the development of a strict science of citation, the isnad or " backing "; the development of a method of open inquiry to disprove claims, the ijtihad, which could be generally applied to many types of questions ( although which to apply it to is an ethical question ); the willingness to both accept and challenge authority within the same process ; recognition that science and philosophy are both subordinate to morality, and that moral choices are prior to any investigation or concern with either ; the separation of theology ( kalam ) and law ( shariah ) during the early Abbasid period, a precursor to secularism ; the distinction between religion and philosophy, marking the beginning of secular thought ; the beginning of a peer review process ; early ideas on evolution ; the beginnings of the scientific method, an important contribution to the philosophy of science ; the introduction of temporal modal logic and inductive logic ; the beginning of social philosophy, including the formulation of theories on social cohesion and social conflict ; the beginning of the philosophy of history ; the development of the philosophical novel and the concepts of empiricism and tabula rasa ; and distinguishing between essence and existence.

One cannot therefore make the claim that Avicenna was the proponent of the concept of essentialism per se, given that existence ( al-wujud ) when thought of in terms of necessity would ontologically translate into a notion of the Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself ( wajib al-wujud bi-dhatihi ), which is without description or definition, and particularly without quiddity or essence ( la mahiyya lahu ).

He referred knowledge ( episteme ) to that essence which is the object of pure thought, and is not included in the phenomenal world ; sensation ( aisthesis ) to that which passes into the world of phenomena ; opinion ( doxa ) to that essence which is at once the object of sensuous perception, and, mathematically, of pure reason-the essence of heaven or the stars ; so that he conceived of doxa in a higher sense, and endeavoured, more definitely than Plato, to exhibit mathematics as mediating between knowledge and sensuous perception All three modes of apprehension partake of truth ; but in what manner scientific perception ( epistemonike aisthesis ) did so, we unfortunately do not learn.

And therefore, the mind is a substance distinct from the body, a substance whose essence is thought.

And his notion that the orgasm in a certain sense was the essence of the character, gave me much food for thought over the years.