What is "decenter"

Usage examples of "decenter".

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.

The completely decentered self is the all-embracing Self (as Zen would say, the Self that is no-self).

In other words, the more one can go within, or the more one can introspect and reflect on one's self, then the more detached from that self one can become, the more one can rise above that self's limited perspective, and so the less narcissistic or less egocentric one becomes (or the more decentered one becomes).

By acting on the self interiorly, that self is decentered, and this allows, among many other things, the continuing expansion (decentering) of moral response from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric (integral-aperspectival).

In other words, and I intend to emphasize this heavily, centauric vision-logic can integrate physiosphere, biosphere, and noosphere in its own compound individuality (and this is, as I suggested in chapter 5, the next major stage of leading-edge global transformation, even though most of the "work yet to be done" is still getting the globe up to decentered universal-rational pluralism in the first place).

This is why Habermas's validity claims are both immanent (contextual) and transcendent (common contextual), as McCarthy explains: "If communicative action is our paradigm, the decentered subject [the intersubjective subject] remains as a participant in social interaction mediated by language.

And that realizationa profound fruition of the decentering thrust of evolutionis the only source of true compassion, a compassion that does not put self first (egocentric) or a particular society first (sociocentric) or humans first (anthropocentric), nor does it try merely in thought to act as if we are all united (worldcentric), but directly and immediately breathes the common air and beats the common blood of a Heart and Body that is one in all beings.

Habermas does not recognize any stages (in any domain) higher than mature and differentiated/integrated, decentered, autonomous communicative reason (vision-logic).

It is the final decentering of all manifest realms, in all domains, at all times, in all places.

This realization came, as I said, directly from Plotinus's radically decentered and nonanthropocentric stance.

All of this radical nonanthropocentrism came, as we saw, precisely because of the radically decentered nature of Nondual mysticism.

The shocking decentering that rationality/science brought is now notorious: Copernicus, Darwin, Freudmen and women are merely links in that vast, vast chain of existence.

They were both also the first to clearly express the theory of relativity inherent in decentering rationality.

In this particular regard, the "new" and "modern" view was precisely that held by Plotinus or Bruno or Cusanus or any other upholder of the doctrine of a radically decentered universe, and a view we have mentioned before: a radical nonanthropocentrism.