Holocentric

Holocentric is a philosophical position which focuses on solutions as the outcome of human agency and on critical thinking. Holocentric is a philosophical position which focuses on solutions as the outcome of human agency and on critical thinking. It is one of the four fundamental worldview types proposed by Richard Bawden in 1997, the other three being technocentric, ecocentric, and egocentric. Drawing on ideas introduced by Burrell and Morgan and Miller, Bawden developed the notion of a worldview matrix in which the four viewpoints represent the basic philosophical positions of members in a community of interest considering an ontological dimension (with holism and reductionism along the x axis) and an epistemological dimension (with objectivism and relativism-contextualism along the y axis).