enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ousia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousia

    In Christian theology, the concept of θεία ουσία (divine essence) is one of the most important doctrinal concepts, central to the development of trinitarian doctrine. [1] The Ancient Greek term θεία ουσία (theia ousia; divine essence) was translated in Latin as essentia or substantia, and hence in English as essence or ...

  3. Essence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essence

    Essence (Latin: essentia) has various meanings and uses for different thinkers and in different contexts. It is used in philosophy and theology as a designation for the property or set of properties or attributes that make an entity the entity it is or, expressed negatively, without which it would lose its identity .

  4. Life force - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_force

    Spirit (vital essence), a vital principle or animating force within all living things; Vijñāna, an Indic term for ideas related to discernment, mind/consciousness, life force, etc. Vitalism, a belief about living organisms; Vitality, the capacity to live, grow, or develop

  5. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life

    The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.

  6. Essentialism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism

    Her essence underlies all the apparent variations differentiating women from each other. Essentialism thus refers to the existence of fixed characteristic, given attributes, and ahistorical functions that limit the possibilities of change and thus of social reorganization."

  7. Existential nihilism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism

    Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".

  8. Meaning (existential) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(existential)

    "Existence precedes essence" means that humans exist first before they have meaning in life. Meaning is not given, and must be achieved. Meaning is not given, and must be achieved. With objects—say, a knife, for example—there is some creator who conceives of an idea or purpose of an object, and then creates it with the essence of the object ...

  9. Existentialism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

    Sartre argued that a central proposition of existentialism is that existence precedes essence, which is to say that individuals shape themselves by existing and cannot be perceived through preconceived and a priori categories, an "essence". The actual life of the individual is what constitutes what could be called their "true essence" instead ...