Farther astray

Usage examples of wider.

And so in this sense it is properly said that this stage is higher or deeper, meaning more valuable and useful for a wider range of interactions.

These theories, instead of helping us escape from the reductionistic and objectifying flatland of instrumentalism, are simply leading the way for an expansion of its reach, tossing the net wider by making it shallower.

We are all holons within holons within holons forever, and each of these theorists helps orient us to deeper and larger engagements, therein to find deeper and wider meanings and liberations.

Granted individual behavior is to some important extent determined by the wider social holon.

Whether one is a Freudian or not, this is still the most accurate and succinct summary of all forms of uncovering psychotherapy, and it simply points to an expansion of ego, an expansion of I-ness, into a higher and wider identity that integrates previously alienated processes.

Over-Soul, the World Soul, it is not that individuality disappears, but thatonce againit is negated and preserved in a deeper and wider ground, a ground that conspicuously includes all of nature and its glories.

The Big Three in yet deeper unfoldings, higher reaches, wider communities, stronger affirmations.

Kosmos thus exerts an omega pull on the shallower and narrower contexts, and when that particular wider depth is reached, that particular omega pull subsides, with the new depth finding that it now exists in a yet-wider and yet-deeper context of its own, which now exerts an unrelenting omega force to once again transcend, to once again embrace more of the Kosmos with care and consciousness.

This re-membering or re-collecting or re-uniting is the Path of Ascent, which, Socrates says, is driven by Eros, by Love, by the finding of greater and greater uniona higher and wider identity, as we have been putting it.

Rationality, as a basic organizing principle of average consciousness, was indeed deeper and wider than mythology, and that was its positive and evolutionary advance, which allowed the Enlightenment philosophes to wildly deconstruct so much of the predecessor worldview: they no doubt had a great deal of truth on their side.

It not only flattened the Kosmos to a one-dimensional, monological affair, it sealed out the possibility of deeper and wider developments that alone could defuse its own insoluble dilemmas.

My point for now is simply that every Eros or Ascent brings a liberating force which can then, barring fixation or repression, be embodied in a wider Agape or compassion.

Deeper and wider than production and consumption was the citizen life, the life of intersubjective relationship and interpersonal friendship.

There is no longer a deeper or higher happiness, only a wider happiness.

We would then be driven merely by pleasure and pain, and thus we would have no resources in ourselves that could deny our own egocentric drives in the name of a deeper and wider compassion for others.