Synoptic philosophy
Synoptic philosophy comes from the Greek word συνοπτικός sunoptikos (“seeing everything together”) and together with the word philosophy, means the love of wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together.[1]
Synoptic philosophy is simply a synthetic worldview embracing both thesis and antithesis such as analysis and synthesis, action and reaction, explication and implication, phenomenon and noumenon, visible and invisible, just to name a few. As such, it may be compared to the Janus' extrovert and introvert vision, or the view on the iceberg having the one-ninth surfaced tip and the eight-ninths submerged mass.
Phenomenology, attempting to bracket egocentrism, appears to be more synoptic than analytic philosophy, logical atomism and logical positivism. Wilfrid Sellars (1962) used the term 'synoptic'.[2],[3] The Anglo-American philosophy made a synoptic, synthetic turn explicitly during the last quarter of the last century, giving birth or rebirth to absolute idealism, phenomenology, poststructuralism, psychologism, historicism, contextualism, holism, and the like.
[edit] See also
- Absolute idealism
- Phenomenology
- Poststructuralism
- Holism
- Contextualism
- Psychologism
- Social constructivism
- New Historicism
- Systems thinking
[edit] References
- ^ Christian, J. L. (1998). Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. ISBN 0155055925 9780155055926
- ^ Wilfrid Sellars (1962) "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man," in: Robert Colodny, ed., Frontiers of Science and Philosophy, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 35-78. Reprinted in Science, Perception and Reality (1963).
- ^ Jay F. Rosenberg (1990) "Fusing the Images: Nachruf for Wilfrid Sellars." Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 21: 1-23.
