The sex passages in The Rainbow were not understood, in 1915, as ritual enactments of the universal essence, but as dirt.
So corrected, the sentence is true, since it signifies that a certain entity, in itself singular, is the substrate of existence of a universal essence (QdU, fol. 133va b).
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.
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).
With respect to empowerment, the challenge is for feminists to rethink this concept in ways that are not reliant on arguably essentialist conceptions of femininity, that is, conceptions that presuppose a universal essence of the feminine.
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.
It is the point where the essence of the object touches into the universal essence.
At its most extreme, gay spirituality can be essentialistic, proposing some universal "essence" shared by all gay men.
Pryer's work tries to find the universal essence of human experience as it exists in the mythologies of the world.
