This principle flows from the reality of the human person, an autonomous creature whose essential nature consists in a capacity for reflection and choice. (firstthings.com)
The first is that the Rorschach Test was never intended to reveal the most essential nature of your being — it was intended to help psychotherapists understand your thought patterns better. (lauriegrengs.com)
Our intention here is not to settle this controversy on the meaning and function of specific moral precepts as between a Catholic universal ethics based on essential natures and a situation ethics given a Protestant interpretation. (religion-online.org)