'constitutes the essence' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that something is fundamental or the primary feature of something else. For example: The combination of simplicity and elegance constitutes the essence of his design.
Rather, Hegel's ontological monism and thus his idealism is meant to be a claim as to the constitution of what is real in reality, a claim about what constitutes the essence (the "truth") of real objects.
This initial inquiry into the ontological constitution of existing things and the correct understanding of "substance" as that which constitutes the essence of a thing (and is thus more worthy of the term "being" than is accident) is crucial to Ibn Daud.
It is the metaphorical relationship between these memories of the past and the known images of the world of the present that constitutes the essence of storytelling.
Last week we considered some of the implications of Spinoza's concept of conatus – the striving to persevere in existence, and to enhance its own power, that constitutes the essence of every individual being.
At the same time, supporters of the movement have shown that, among Christians of good will, elaborations of what constitutes the essence of Christianity are as confusing as they are inevitable and necessary.
Civilisation is what threatens nature; and their move from bondage or constraint into independence, which constitutes the essence of America as a radical European ideal in the 18th and early 19th centuries, is actually what brings civilisation into the wild west and so destroys it.
A variety of chili peppers, ranging from mild to incendiary, and fragrant, piquant Sichuan peppercorns (really dried berries) constitute the essence of Sichuan style.
Chemical composition and internal structure together constitute the essence of a mineral and determine its physical properties; thus, classification should rely on both.
This sort of manufacturing, which is both highly capital-intensive and highly know-how-intensive, was virtually monopolized by the United States in the 1950s and 1960s and constituted the essence of American economic leadership.
In some cases the answer was very few.The idea spread from core competencies to core everything core processes, core businesses everything that constituted the essence of what a company was and did.
