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Essentialists meaning
plural of essentialist
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Among contemporary essentialists, what all existing things have in common is the power to exist, which defines their "uncreated" Essence.
In ethics Classical essentialists claim that some things are wrong in an absolute sense, for example murder breaks a universal, objective and natural moral law and not merely an advantageous, socially or ethically constructed one.
Plato was one of the first essentialists, believing in the concept of ideal forms, an abstract entity of which individual objects are mere facsimiles.