Sentence examples for a human essence from inspiring English sources

But a human essence embedded in manipulable genome is not immutable it is created, not discovered.

This life's work of reclamation has provided Kertész with his great theme, and a fascination with what he calls fatelessness, sorstalanság – the title of his most famous novel – which he defines here as "that specific aspect of dictatorships, the expropriation, nationalisation of one's own fate, turning it into a mass fate, the stripping away of a human being's most human essence".

Science has tended to conceive human essence as a fixed object discoverable in nature.

It is Marx and Hegel who provided Marcuse with a philosophical anthropology that discloses human essence and the social mechanisms by which it is distorted.

Park's moving description of her father, a minor government official, captures the human essence of these forced labor camps.

Negation1 is the negation of human essence or freedom by an oppressive, repressive socio/economic system.

Irigaray's genealogical account of sexual difference resists both the idea of an invariant universal (and hence sexually neutral) human essence that subtends (and thereby expels) human multiplicity and the idea of sexual essences that consist in self-enclosed identities between which there is an uncrossable divide.

"The Origin of the Work of Art" thus suggests that art is a particularly direct and revealing actualization of the human essence.

The film, investigating a similar question, pushes its characters to the very limits of their humanity even as it strips them to their human essence.

In "Deported," the incendiary issue of illegal immigration is boiled down to its human essence on the drained face of a woman caught after crossing the American border and walking for days in the Arizona desert.

In an earlier work, Aristotle distinguishes essence, for example the necessary property of being rational for a human being, from accident, for example, being asleep, and from distinctive properties, those necessary properties that are explained by rationality but are not part of the human essence, for example, the capacity to learn a language (Topics I 5).