The phrase "a single essence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that embodies a unique or fundamental quality or nature.
Example: "In philosophy, the concept of a single essence often refers to the core nature that defines an entity."
Alternatives: "a singular nature" or "a unified essence".
But does bullshit have a single essence?
Explanations will struggle with this variety as they typically require a single essence to get started – religion stems from the tendency to ascribe agency to inanimate forces, say.
Organisms still have just as much vital force as they had before, but as understanding of biological mechanisms increased, the idea of a single essence evaporated.
If we included Eastern religions in the scope of the discussion, the hope for finding a single essence of religion would recede further.
This does not, however, give us a single essence of religion, since the conceptions of divinity are so various, and human relations with divinity are conceived so variously that no such essence is apparent even within Western thought.
In each case it involves the fallacy of defining the multiple and shifting identities present in every human being in terms of a single, unchanging essence.
Seeking to defend religion, Armstrong argues that it acts against violence as often as it encourages it; that civilization itself is inherently violent; that religious tradition is not "a single, unchanging essence"; and that, for most of human history, religion was indistinguishable from politics, society, and culture, and therefore "religious violence" was meaningless as a discrete category.
The individuals in a species or genus thus share a single material essence.
On the contrary, the divine intellect and will are aspects of a single divine essence that subsists in three "persons" or "hypostases".
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In contrast, he says, there is no single "essence of tea"; tea is made from a wide variety of compounds, but no single one is essential.
