{{Short description|Blending and appreciation of wisdom in its totality}} '''Synoptic philosophy''' comes from the Greek word συνοπτικός ''synoptikos'' ("seeing everything together") and together with the word philosophy, means the love of wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together.<ref name=christian>Christian, J. L. (1998). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=VSrrXcuFfNQC&dq Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering]''. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. {{ISBN|978-0-15-505592-6}}; {{Cite book |last=Christian |first=James L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSrrXcuFfNQC |title=Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering |date=2008-01-24 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-0-495-50504-4}}</ref>
James L. Christian's ''Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering'' (1973) takes a unique synoptic approach: its author believes that philosophy is critical thinking about the "Big Picture". The goal of the book is not merely to introduce the history of formal thinking in western culture, but also to provide students with practical approaches and tools for dealing with some of the enduring questions as they manifest in everyday life.<ref name=christian />
The philosopher Wilfrid Sellars (1962) also uses the term '''synoptic vision'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->.<ref>Wilfrid Sellars (1962), "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man", in Robert Colodny, ed., ''Frontiers of Science and Philosophy'', Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 35–78. Reprinted in ''Science, Perception and Reality'' (1963).</ref><ref>Jay F. Rosenberg (1990). "Fusing the Images: Nachruf for Wilfrid Sellars", ''Journal for General Philosophy of Science'', 21: 1–23.</ref>
==See also== * Interdisciplinarity * New Historicism * Social constructivism * ''A Syntopicon'' * Systems thinking
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== External links == * [http://www.ditext.com/sellars/psim.html Wilfrid Sellars (1962), Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man] * [http://www.ditext.com/rosenberg/rose.html Jay F. Rosenberg (1990), Fusing the Images: Nachruf for Wilfrid Sellars] * [http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/agora/2004/v3n01/208.htm Introduction: Lawrence Durrell, Text, Hypertext, Intertext]
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