Marx recognized this in the Theses on Feuerbach: abstracting 'human essence' into a universal dissolves the actual individual into a generic category, preserving religious abstraction.
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Taking the idea of what makes humans 'human' and turning it into a general, universal concept instead of looking at real, specific people with different lives.
generic category(as what happens when human essence is universalized)
A broad group that lumps individuals together based on one shared feature, removing what makes each person unique.
religious abstraction(as the problem that Marx says Feuerbach's philosophy preserves)
The way religion takes real human feelings and experiences and transforms them into abstract ideas about God and the spiritual world, removing them from actual life.
universal(Argument for the generality of Turing machines)
A computing system capable of simulating any other computing system of the same or lesser power; used here to describe Turing machines as the most general model of computation.