There are wider definitions, including this one from a leading scholar of masculinities, Michael Kimmell: "Masculinity... is not a constant, universal essence, but rather an ever-changing fluid assemblage of meanings and behaviors that vary dramatically.
Responses were analysed using a phenomenological approach to derive themes depicting the universal essence of EOL care.
Participants were prompted with the question ' What matters most for EOL care?' Responses were analysed using a phenomenological approach to derive themes depicting the universal essence of EOL care.
In this way, Wyclif establishes a close connection between singular essence and essential being, on the one hand, and a real identity between universal and individual (that is, between universal essence and singular essence), on the other hand.
The sex passages in The Rainbow were not understood, in 1915, as ritual enactments of the universal essence, but as dirt.
Accordingly, there is no universal essence in singular individuals.
Essential being is the level of being that matches singular essence, while actual existence is in a certain way accidental to the singular essence, as the latter is nothing else but the universal essence considered as informing matter.
In his being-one, Feuerbach argues, God is everything-as-one, and is, as such, the universal essence in which all finite essences are "grounded, contained and conceived [begriffen]" (GTU 241/48).
In fact, he maintains, it is impossible to speak of being in all its universal essence (ontology), without regard to the infinity and absoluteness of Being (rational theology), just as it is impossible to consider the world philosophically (cosmology) without taking its cause into consideration.
