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Essentialism

Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity. In early Western thought, Platonic idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an "idea" or "form". In Categories, Aristotle similarly proposed that all objects have a substance that, as George Lakoff put it, "make the thing what it is, and…

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related to Bibliography · 139
Essentialism → American Mass Culture, Amsterdam, Amundson, Ancient Egypt, And Other Essays, Angier, Annals, Anthropologists, Anthropology Southern Africa, Antiquity, April, Archived, Atabaki, Athens, August, Beacon Press, Betsileo, Beyond Essentialism, Bias, Bickenbach
related to Further reading · 33
Essentialism → Adams, Andrew, August, Barrett, Beyond, Beyond Sartre, Cattarini, Co, Dagobert, David, Dictionary, Essence, Form, Hylomorphism, Individuation, Littlefield, Matter, Mind, Montreal, Oderberg
related to Gender essentialism · 30
Essentialism → Ann Hibner Koblitz, Diana Fuss, Dorinda Outram, Elizabeth Grosz, Evelyn Fox Keller, Feminist, Gay/lesbian, Gender, Her, Images, In, It, Lenore Blum, Mars, Mary Beth Ruskai, Mary Gray, Men Are, Nancy Tuana, New York Times, Other
related to In philosophy · 27
Essentialism → According, An, Aristotle, Aristotle's, Badiou, Classical, Empirical, For Plato, Greek, Heidegger, In Plato's, It, Kierkegaard, Marx, One, Philebus, Plato, Plato's, Platonic, Sartre
related to In developmental psychology · 22
Essentialism → According, Children, Despite, Experimental, For, In, India, It, Kathryn Kremer, Observable, Paul Bloom, Prejudiced, Scholars, Susan Gelman, The, There, This, Understanding, United States, We
related to In historiography · 22
Essentialism → Athenian, Central Asia, Edward Said, Egypt, Egyptian, Eurocentrism, For, Greeks, He, Herodotus, Histories, Into, Karl Popper, Middle East, Persians, Popper, Post-colonial, Sometimes, To, Touraj Atabaki
related to Racial, cultural and strategic essentialism · 12
Essentialism → African-American, After, Cultural, Historically, In, It, Nazi, New, Older, Psychological, This, West
related to External links · 7
Essentialism → August, Brian, Emory University, Indiana Philosophy Ontology ProjectCliff, PhilPapersEssentialism, Retrieved, Spring
related to In psychology · 4
Essentialism → Influential, Susan Gelman, There, This
see also · 4
Essentialism → Biological, Japan, Non-essentialismPleasurePoststructuralismPrimordialismSocial, SchoolVitalism Political

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Essentialismis aview that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity0.90text
Essentialismis aattribution of fixed essences to men and women0.90text
Essentialismis aview that fundamental biological or physical characteristics of human0.90text
raceinstance ofBeliefs which posit that social identities0.80text
ethnicityinstance ofBeliefs which posit that social identities0.80text
nationalityinstance ofBeliefs which posit that social identities0.80text
or gender are essential characteristics have been central to many discriminatory or extremist ideologiesinstance ofBeliefs which posit that social identities0.80text
speciesinstance ofWinsor has argued that biologists such as Louis Agassiz in the 19th century believed that taxa0.80text
genus were fixedinstance ofWinsor has argued that biologists such as Louis Agassiz in the 19th century believed that taxa0.80text
reflecting the mind of the creatorinstance ofWinsor has argued that biologists such as Louis Agassiz in the 19th century believed that taxa0.80text
Womeninstance ofbut this essentialism is routinely critiqued in introductory women's studies textbooks0.80text
nationality or gender determine a person's essential characteristics have in many cases been shown to have destructive or harmful resultsinstance ofbeliefs which posit that social identities0.80text

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