Meaning of bioessentialism | Babel Free

Definitions

The philosophy that biology plays a larger role in determining human psychology or development than social, economic, or environmental factors.

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Examples

“Here the ghetto-centric individualism of the poor appears to have defeated the convenient bioessentialism of the elite.”

“[…] this book investigates a Spiritualist ethos dedicated, not to indeterminacy, but to bioessentialism, racial and hereditary determinism, and the prenatal fixity of character.”

“Peterson's bioessentialism appeals to the spurned white man, cognizant of his financial and marital insecurity - his lack of social prominence is not his own fault, but due to the perversion of nature by the principle of egalitarianism, and without the demasculinating force of feminism, he could reach his full predestined potential.”

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