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subject	book bibliographic info
essential, flesh, natural and	Williams (2009) 212
essential, for religious life, sacrifice	Bickerman and Tropper (2007) 582, 615, 616, 617
essential, goodness of god, theoi, θεοί‎	d, Hoine and Martijn (2017) 242, 244, 253
essential, immortality	Long (2019) 20, 29, 30, 31, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 61
essential, number	Corrigan and Rasimus (2013) 419, 420
essential, part of the conversion process, immersion, not	Cohen (2010) 341
essential, sociability, as	Isaac (2004) 244, 245, 451
essential, to human nature, intellect, as	Segev (2017) 105, 110, 117, 118, 119, 169
essential, unity gods, as, boethius	Hoenig (2018) 26
essentialism	Feder (2022) 196, 207, 210, 211, 212, 223, 254, 258, 259
essentialism, essence	Lieu (2004) 22, 26, 54, 157, 315
essentially, genderless / sexless, soul, whether	Schultz and Wilberding (2022) 43, 45, 59, 71, 72, 82, 83, 85, 90, 99, 100, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 129, 138, 139, 147, 149, 230, 246, 271, 279
essentially, good, creation	Blidstein (2017) 48, 79, 87, 170, 207, 209, 210
essentially, linked to the soul, body, as	Carter (2019) 139
intelligible/essential, logos/logoi, reason principle, λόγος‎/λόγοι‎, ousiôdês, οὐσιώδης‎	d, Hoine and Martijn (2017) 172, 176, 181, 192, 195
καθ‎αὑτό‎, /essential, property, per se, kathhauto	d, Hoine and Martijn (2017) 60, 71, 114

List of validated texts:

5 validated results for "essential"

1. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Essence (οὐσία) • essence • essence (ousia) • immortality, essential

Found in books: Hankinson (1998) 98; Horkey (2019) 5; Joosse (2021) 67; Long (2019) 54

252d. καὶ οὕτω καθʼ ἕκαστον θεόν, οὗ ἕκαστος ἦν χορευτής, ἐκεῖνον τιμῶν τε καὶ μιμούμενος εἰς τὸ δυνατὸν ζῇ, ἕως ἂν ᾖ ἀδιάφθορος καὶ τὴν τῇδε πρώτην γένεσιν βιοτεύῃ, καὶ τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ πρός τε τοὺς ἐρωμένους καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ὁμιλεῖ τε καὶ προσφέρεται. τόν τε οὖν ἔρωτα τῶν καλῶν πρὸς τρόπου ἐκλέγεται ἕκαστος, καὶ ὡς θεὸν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον ὄντα ἑαυτῷ οἷον ἄγαλμα τεκταίνεταί τε καὶ κατακοσμεῖ, ὡς' '. None

252d. And so it is with the follower of each of the other gods; he lives, so far as he is able, honoring and imitating that god, so long as he is uncorrupted, and is living his first life on earth, and in that way he behaves and conducts himself toward his beloved and toward all others. Now each one chooses his love from the ranks of the beautiful according to his character, and he fashions him and adorns him' '. None

2. Plato, Theaetetus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • essence • essence of human soul

Found in books: Broadie (2021) 141; d, Hoine and Martijn (2017) 247

176e. οὐδὲν ἀδικοῦντες, ἀλλὰ ἣν ἀδύνατον ἐκφυγεῖν. ΘΕΟ. τίνα δὴ λέγεις; ΣΩ. παραδειγμάτων, ὦ φίλε, ἐν τῷ ὄντι ἑστώτων, τοῦ μὲν θείου εὐδαιμονεστάτου, τοῦ δὲ ἀθέου ἀθλιωτάτου, οὐχ ὁρῶντες ὅτι οὕτως ἔχει, ὑπὸ ἠλιθιότητός τε καὶ τῆς ἐσχάτης''. None

176e. THEO. What penalty do you mean? SOC. Two patterns, my friend, are set up in the world, the divine, which is most blessed, and the godless, which is most wretched. But these men do not see that this is the case, and their silliness and extreme foolishness blind them to the fact that''. None

3. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Essence (οὐσία) • essential goodness of god (theoi, θεοί‎) • immortality, essential • per se (kathhauto, καθ‎αὑτό‎)/essential property

Found in books: Joosse (2021) 66; Long (2019) 52; d, Hoine and Martijn (2017) 71, 244

36d. ταὐτοῦ καὶ ὁμοίου περιφορᾷ· μίαν γὰρ αὐτὴν ἄσχιστον εἴασεν, τὴν δʼ ἐντὸς σχίσας ἑξαχῇ ἑπτὰ κύκλους ἀνίσους κατὰ τὴν τοῦ διπλασίου καὶ τριπλασίου διάστασιν ἑκάστην, οὐσῶν ἑκατέρων τριῶν, κατὰ τἀναντία μὲν ἀλλήλοις προσέταξεν ἰέναι τοὺς κύκλους, τάχει δὲ τρεῖς μὲν ὁμοίως, τοὺς δὲ τέτταρας ἀλλήλοις καὶ τοῖς τρισὶν ἀνομοίως, ἐν λόγῳ δὲ φερομένους.'41a. τούτων, ἐκ δὲ Κρόνου καὶ Ῥέας Ζεὺς Ἥρα τε καὶ πάντες ὅσους ἴσμεν ἀδελφοὺς λεγομένους αὐτῶν, ἔτι τε τούτων ἄλλους ἐκγόνους· ἐπεὶ δʼ οὖν πάντες ὅσοι τε περιπολοῦσιν φανερῶς καὶ ὅσοι φαίνονται καθʼ ὅσον ἂν ἐθέλωσιν θεοὶ γένεσιν ἔσχον, λέγει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὁ τόδε τὸ πᾶν γεννήσας τάδε— 41b. δεθὲν πᾶν λυτόν, τό γε μὴν καλῶς ἁρμοσθὲν καὶ ἔχον εὖ λύειν ἐθέλειν κακοῦ· διʼ ἃ καὶ ἐπείπερ γεγένησθε, ἀθάνατοι μὲν οὐκ ἐστὲ οὐδʼ ἄλυτοι τὸ πάμπαν, οὔτι μὲν δὴ λυθήσεσθέ γε οὐδὲ τεύξεσθε θανάτου μοίρας, τῆς ἐμῆς βουλήσεως μείζονος ἔτι δεσμοῦ καὶ κυριωτέρου λαχόντες ἐκείνων οἷς ὅτʼ ἐγίγνεσθε συνεδεῖσθε. νῦν οὖν ὃ λέγω πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐνδεικνύμενος, μάθετε. θνητὰ ἔτι γένη λοιπὰ τρία ἀγέννητα· τούτων δὲ μὴ γενομένων οὐρανὸς ἀτελὴς ἔσται· τὰ γὰρ ἅπαντʼ ἐν 41d. ἐγὼ παραδώσω· τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ὑμεῖς, ἀθανάτῳ θνητὸν προσυφαίνοντες, ἀπεργάζεσθε ζῷα καὶ γεννᾶτε τροφήν τε διδόντες αὐξάνετε καὶ φθίνοντα πάλιν δέχεσθε. '. None

36d. to the Revolution of the Same and of the Uniform. For this alone He suffered to remain uncloven, whereas He split the inner Revolution in six places into seven unequal circles, according to each of the intervals of the double and triple intervals, three double and three triple. These two circles then He appointed to go in contrary directions; and of the seven circles into which He split the inner circle, He appointed three to revolve at an equal speed, the other four to go at speeds equal neither with each other nor with the speed of the aforesaid three, yet moving at speeds the ratios of which one to another are those of natural integers.'41a. and of Cronos and Rhea were born Zeus and Hera and all those who are, as we know, called their brethren; and of these again, other descendants. 41b. yet to will to dissolve that which is fairly joined together and in good case were the deed of a wicked one. Wherefore ye also, seeing that ye were generated, are not wholly immortal or indissoluble, yet in no wise shall ye be dissolved nor incur the doom of death, seeing that in my will ye possess a bond greater and more sovereign than the bonds wherewith, at your birth, ye were bound together. Now, therefore, what I manifest and declare unto you do ye learn. Three mortal kinds still remain ungenerated; but if these come not into being the Heaven will be imperfect; for it will not contain within itself the whole sum of the hinds of living creatures, yet contain them it must if 41d. For the rest, do ye weave together the mortal with the immortal, and thereby fashion and generate living creatures, and give them food that they may grow, and when they waste away receive them to yourselves again. '. None

4. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • creation, essentially good • eschatology, “essence”

Found in books: Azar (2016) 183; Blidstein (2017) 207

5. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Soul, whether essentially genderless / sexless • energeia, distinguished from essence • essence, distinguished from activity

Found in books: Marmodoro and Prince (2015) 206; Schultz and Wilberding (2022) 45

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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