Essays on Essentialism

While the concept of race is today clearly recognized as fictitious, the term itself has taken an altogether new reality as a cultural denotation. More specifically, the culture of racism is largely influenced by geopolitical imagination and socio-political antagonism. The new political order referred to as “Empire” is a social frame work that posits “the inferiority of an “Other” based not in biology but in cultural differences and their insurmountability” (Semati, 257). Semati argues that ‘Brown’, once signified exoticism, but refers to menacing ‘Other’ today. The Brown in this case (in Semati’s article) refers to the Muslims of ...

Sex and sexuality is one of the most important issues pertaining to women and gender studies. While sex refers to an individual’s gender, sexuality refers to an individual’s expression as a human being, which begins at birth and continues until death (Weeks 9). Sexuality is also defined as the relationship between an individual’s gender role and identity, body image, sexual orientation and relationships (Weeks 7). In other words, sexuality constitutes an individual’s values, attitudes, behavior and knowledge, and is mostly influenced by the family, culture and society. Some of the major sources of sexuality are ...

Description of the Philosophy

The ‘Essentialism Theory of Education mandates that the fundamental role of all academic institutes, specifically schools, is to transmit basic social and cultural norms to all students with the goal of helping them integrate into society and function as effective and efficient members .

Human Nature

Aspects The principle on which Essentialism is based states that all human beings are imbued with a standard set of learning abilities. Therefore, children require a systemised environment in which their foundational ability to compute numbers, learn different languages, appreciate artistic creations and learn life lessons from the study of history are polished. The rationale here ...

Analysis of the Article by Michael Devitt

The article by Michael Devitt is dedicated to the idea that all the Linnaean taxa have essences, which are guided intrinsic properties, which are mostly genetic. According to the biology philosophers, such theory is wrong and contradicts Darwinism, but in the article the author argues that biological generalizations drawn about the certain properties of species need structural explanation, adverting to the essential properties. In the most widespread approach, thus, the way an organism feels lie in a particular kind is ignored. As a result, Devitt shows how essentialism can integrate the Darwinism features that are associated with change and variation. ...

The purpose of Marc Ereshefsky’s article, “What’s Wrong with the New Biological Essentialism” is to explore the new biological essentialism and to critically evaluate it, as the title suggests. The author is intending to demonstrate that the biological essentialism should be rejected, because it implies increased costs for being adopted, while the benefits are inexistent.

The first premises that the author uses to sustain his argument is based on the HPC Theory and Biological Taxa. Homeostatic property cluster (HPC) theory includes two components: (1) HPC membership kind requires no similarities, but (2) there must be stable properties ...