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Usage examples of egocentrism.

Again and again Habermas hits the egocentrism of the systems perspective, which also makes sense when we understand that the systems view was the other pole of the self-defining and self-glorifying underside of the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm, a remnant of the philosophy of the subject.

Howard Gardner does a masterful job of summarizing development as being the two processes of decreasing egocentrism and increasing interiority.

It is the radical end to all egocentrism, all geocentrism, all biocentrism, all sociocentrism, all theocentrism, because it is the radical end of all centrisms, period.

The power of even the best of them had created an understandable egocentrism and also a sense of paranoia, for they did not wish to lose what they had.

It is a massive reductionism, he says, that collapses truth and meaning into functional capacity, and reduces intersubjectivity to rather crass egocentrism.

For what we find as we carefully study Piaget is that the productions of, say, the preoperational mind initially look very holistic, very interconnected, very "religious" in a sense, until we even barely scratch the surface and find the whole production supported by egocentrism, artificialism, finalism, anthropocentrism, and indissociation.

Only with the emergence of a strong and differentiated ego (which occurs from the third to the fifth fulcrums, culminating in formop, or rational perspectivism)only with the emergence of the mature ego does egocentrism die down!

Nonetheless, at the same time this allows the beginning of what Piaget calls a decentering, where one can decenter or stand aside from the egocentrism of the early mind and instead take the role of other, and this comes to a fruition with a further decentering, a further lessening of egocentrism, in formal operational (where one can take the perspective, not just of others in one's group, but of others in other groups: worldcentric or non-ethnocentric).

As we will see when we follow evolution into the transpersonal domain, these developments converge on an intuition of the very Divine as one's very Self, common in and to all peoples (in fact, all sentient beings), a Self that is the great omega point of this entire series of decreasing egocentrism, of decentering from the small self in order to find the big Selfa Self common in and to all beings and thus escaping the egocentrism (and ethnocentrism) of each.

As we will see, Piaget believes that the major and in many ways defining characteristic of all adherences is egocentrism, or an early and initial inability to transcend one's own perspective and understand that reality is not self-centered.

The emergence of the preop mind (fulcrum-3) is a lessening of that emotional egocentrism, but a blossoming of egocentric (and geocentric) magicless primitive than the previous stage, but still shot through with egocentric adherences: the world exists centered on humans.

Matt theorized that the concept of an arbitrary end to space must somehow be bound up with egocentrism.