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*Something that is; an existence, entity. Now restricted to spiritual or immaterial entities.

*Something that is; an existence, entity. Now restricted to spiritual or immaterial entities.

1576 FLEMING Panop. Ep. 284 Nature hath not given unto men their essence and being, to be..in idlenesse..but..still to bee doinge. 1579 LYLY Euphues (Arb.) 166 How canst thou abide his presence, that beleevedst not his essence? 1605 SYLVESTER Du Bartas I. i. Argt. (1605-7) I. 1 World not eternall.. But of meere Nothing God it Essence gaue. 1622 FLETCHER Sp. Curate IV. iv, I would resign my Essence, that he were As happy as my Love cou'd fashion him. a1688 CUDWORTH Immut. Mor. (1731) 2 None of these things have in Nature any Essence of their own.[http://dictionary.oed.com]

1576 FLEMING Panop. Ep. 284 Nature hath not given unto men their essence and being, to be..in idlenesse..but..still to bee doinge. 1579 LYLY Euphues (Arb.) 166 How canst thou abide his presence, that beleevedst not his essence? 1605 SYLVESTER Du Bartas I. i. Argt. (1605-7) I. 1 World not eternall.. But of meere Nothing God it Essence gaue. 1622 FLETCHER Sp. Curate IV. iv, I would resign my Essence, that he were As happy as my Love cou'd fashion him. a1688 CUDWORTH Immut. Mor. (1731) 2 None of these things have in Nature any Essence of their own.[https://dictionary.oed.com]

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Essence''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Essence this link].</center>

<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Essence''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Essence this link].</center>

==Philosophy==

==Philosophy==

In [[philosophy]], '''essence''' is the attribute or set of attributes that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its [[identity]]. Essence is contrasted with accident: a property that the object or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity.  The concept originates with Aristotle, who used the Greek expression ''to ti ên einai'', literally 'the what it was to be', or sometimes the shorter phrase ''to ti esti'', literally 'the what it is,' for the same idea.  This phrase presented such difficulties for his Latin translators that they coined the word ''essentia'' to represent the whole expression.  For Aristotle and his scholastic followers the notion of essence is closely linked to that of definition (''horismos'')  [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/ S. Marc Cohen, "Aristotle's Metaphysics"]

In [[philosophy]], '''essence''' is the attribute or set of attributes that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its [[identity]]. Essence is contrasted with accident: a property that the object or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity.  The concept originates with Aristotle, who used the Greek expression ''to ti ên einai'', literally 'the what it was to be', or sometimes the shorter phrase ''to ti esti'', literally 'the what it is,' for the same idea.  This phrase presented such difficulties for his Latin translators that they coined the word ''essentia'' to represent the whole expression.  For Aristotle and his scholastic followers the notion of essence is closely linked to that of definition (''horismos'')  [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/ S. Marc Cohen, "Aristotle's Metaphysics"]

In the [[history]] of western thought, essence has often served as a vehicle for doctrines that tend to individuate different forms of existence as well as different identity conditions for objects and properties; in this eminently logical meaning, the concept has given a strong theoretical and common-sense basis to the whole family of logical theories based on the "possible worlds" analogy set up by Leibniz and developed in the intensional logic from Rudolf Carnap to Saul Kripke, which was later challenged by "extensionalist" philosophers such as Quine.

In the [[history]] of western thought, essence has often served as a vehicle for doctrines that tend to individuate different forms of existence as well as different identity conditions for objects and properties; in this eminently logical meaning, the concept has given a strong theoretical and common-sense basis to the whole family of logical theories based on the "possible worlds" analogy set up by Leibniz and developed in the intensional logic from Rudolf Carnap to Saul Kripke, which was later challenged by "extensionalist" philosophers such as Quine.

==Hinduism==

==Hinduism==

In understanding any [[individual]] [[personality]], a distinction is made between one's ''Swadharma'' (essence) and ''Swabhava''(mental habits and conditionings of ego personality). Svabhava is the nature of a person, which is a result of his or her samskaras (impressions created in the mind due to one's interaction with the external world). These samskaras create habits and mental models and those become our nature. While there is another kind of svabhava that is a pure internal [[quality]], we are here focusing only on the svabhava that was created due to samskaras (because to discover the pure, internal svabhava, one should become aware of one's samskaras and take control over them). [[Dharma]] is derived from the root Dhr - to hold. It is that which holds an entity together. That is, Dharma is that which gives integrity to an entity and holds the core [[quality]] and [[identity]] (essence), form and function of that entity. Dharma is also defined as righteousness and duty. To do one's dharma is to be righteous, to do one's dharma is to do one's duty (express one's essence). [http://www.prasadkaipa.com/blog/archives/2005/07/svabhava_and_sv.php]

In understanding any [[individual]] [[personality]], a distinction is made between one's ''Swadharma'' (essence) and ''Swabhava''(mental habits and conditionings of ego personality). Svabhava is the nature of a person, which is a result of his or her samskaras (impressions created in the mind due to one's interaction with the external world). These samskaras create habits and mental models and those become our nature. While there is another kind of svabhava that is a pure internal [[quality]], we are here focusing only on the svabhava that was created due to samskaras (because to discover the pure, internal svabhava, one should become aware of one's samskaras and take control over them). [[Dharma]] is derived from the root Dhr - to hold. It is that which holds an entity together. That is, Dharma is that which gives integrity to an entity and holds the core [[quality]] and [[identity]] (essence), form and function of that entity. Dharma is also defined as righteousness and duty. To do one's dharma is to be righteous, to do one's dharma is to do one's duty (express one's essence). [https://www.prasadkaipa.com/blog/archives/2005/07/svabhava_and_sv.php]

== Political Valence ==

== Political Valence ==

==External links ==

==External links ==

*Husserl's Ideas on a Pure Phenomenology[http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/husserl.html]

*Husserl's Ideas on a Pure Phenomenology[https://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/husserl.html]

*A Sense of Eidos[http://www.eidos.uwaterloo.ca/pdfs/novak-eidos.pdf]

*A Sense of Eidos[https://www.eidos.uwaterloo.ca/pdfs/novak-eidos.pdf]

*Nominalism, realism, conceptualism[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11090c.htm]

*Nominalism, realism, conceptualism[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11090c.htm]

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