Synoptic Philosophy
<p><b>Synoptic philosophy</b> comes from the Greek word συνοπτικός <i>sunoptikos</i> ("seeing everything together") and together with the word <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>, means the love of wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoptic_philosophy#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_%28philosophy%29" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)">Phenomenology</a>, attempting to bracket <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentrism" title="Egocentrism">egocentrism</a>, appears to be more synoptic than <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy" title="Analytic philosophy">analytic philosophy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_atomism" title="Logical atomism">logical atomism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism" title="Logical positivism">logical positivism</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Sellars" title="Wilfrid Sellars">Wilfrid Sellars</a> (1962) used the term 'synoptic'.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoptic_philosophy#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoptic_philosophy#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> The Anglo-American philosophy made a synoptic, synthetic turn explicitly during the last quarter of the last century, giving birth or rebirth to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_idealism" title="Absolute idealism">absolute idealism</a>, phenomenology, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poststructuralism" class="mw-redirect" title="Poststructuralism">poststructuralism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychologism" title="Psychologism">psychologism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism" title="Historicism">historicism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextualism" title="Contextualism">contextualism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism" title="Holism">holism</a>, and the like.</p>