Example of holistic perspective and partial point of view
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What is the difference between a holistic
perspective to a partial point of view?
Holistic Perspective/Holism
-comes from the
Greek word holos which literally means all,
entire, totality. It aims to determine and explain
the whole or totality of a given system by
examining the behaviors and activities of
certain component parts.
Partial point of view it is a perspective that is
based on one of the component parts of a
whole.
A partial point of view is a perspective that
looks at reality based on a single or partial
component of a system whereas the holistic
perspective tries to broaden the understanding
of reality by taking considerations of other
possible causal agents or factors
Blind Men and the Elephant
A Poem by John Godfrey Saxe
It was six men of Indostan,
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
[Though all of them were blind],
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First approach'd the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy_______,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"
The Second, feeling of the________,
Cried, -"Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and
sharp?
To me 'tis mighty clear,
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!"
The Third approach'd the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming_________within his
hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," -quoth he- "the Elephant
Is very like a snake!"
The Fourth reached out an eager
hand,
And felt about the_________:
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain," -quoth he,-
"'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!"
The Fifth, who chanced to touch
the_________,
Said- "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!"
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Then, seizing on the
swinging__________
That fell within his scope,
"I see," -quoth he,- "the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
What caused the dispute between the
six man of Indostan?
Anong ibig sabihin nito,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
Limit of Experience =
Limits of the Senses
Philosophy begun in this question,
WHAT IS EVERYTHING?
Ano nga ba ang LAHAT-LAHAT-
SABAY-SABAY? [Feriols]
Aristotle
Most of the earliest philosophers
conceived only of material principles
as underlying all things. That of which
all things consist, from which they first
come and into which on their
destruction they are ultimately
resolved, of which the essence
persists although modified by its
affectionsthis, they say, is an
element and principle of existing
things.
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