Search for crossword answers and clues
All-encompassing view
Answer for the clue "All-encompassing view ", 6 letters:
holism
Alternative clues for the word holism
Word definitions for holism in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole; "holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"; "holistic theory has been applied to ecology and language and mental ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, apparently by South African Gen. J.C. Smuts (1870-1950) in his book "Holism and Evolution" which treats of evolution as a process of unification of separate parts; from Greek holos "whole" (see safe (adj.)) + -ism .\n\nThis character of "wholeness" ...
Usage examples of holism.
Enlightenment paradigm: the holism of nature produced the atomism of the self.
From world-centric pluralism to divine egoism and biocentric sensory immersionat one with sentimental nature in my own self-reverberating feelingsthis was the other endgame of flatland holism, a morbid embrace driven by a Thanatos that, in the way of all deception, whispered always of the wonders of ever-shallower engagements.
This Batesonian cybernetic holism, says Berman, is by far the best candidate for world salvation in the postmodern era.
A true holism should embrace not only the theory of living systems, but also the reality of the belly, of wind, hunger, and snowworms roasting over a fire on a cold winter night.
World Soul and Eco-Noetic Self is misinterpreted in terms of a flatland holism that, in leveling qualitative distinctions, paralyzes actions that would further the descent of that World Soul.
Virtually all present-day ecophilosophers, precisely because they are not nondual in their approach, are forced to argue the continuity thesis, which earns for them the charge from critics of being eco-fascists, which bewilders the ecophilosophers, who imagine that a flatland holism is actually a liberating notion.
Great Holarchy of Being was collapsed into a monological and flatland holism of observable exteriors, namely, the great interlocking order.
THE EGO AND THE Eco We earlier noted the altogether extraordinary paradox of the Enlightenment paradigm: the holism of nature produced the atomism of the self.
From world-centric pluralism to divine egoism and biocentric sensory immersionat one with sentimental nature in my own self-reverberating feelingsthis was the other endgame of flatland holism, a morbid embrace driven by a Thanatos that, in the way of all deception, whispered always of the wonders of ever-shallower engagements.
No strand in the web is ever aware of the whole web, which is why empirical holism ends up divisive, dualistic, and isolationist.
The new theories that had given birth to holism quantum mechanics, batesonian epistemology, general systems theory, cybernetics and information theory had grown into elaborate, intricate systems representing reality with the language and symbols of the universal syntax.