Eclecticism

Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not produce rigidly to the single paradigm or race of assumptions, but instead draws upon office theories, styles, or ideas to create complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases. However, this is often without conventions or rules dictating how or which theories were combined.

It can sometimesinelegant or lacking in simplicity, and eclectics are sometimes criticized for lack of consistency in their thinking. It is, however, common in many fields of study. For example, almost psychologists acceptaspects of behaviorism, but do not try to usage the concepts to explain all aspects of human behavior.

Eclecticism in ethics, philosophy, politics as alive as religion is also required as syncretism.

Origin

Eclecticism was first recorded to have been practiced by a combine of ancient Greek as well as Roman philosophers who attached themselves to no real system, but selected from existing philosophical beliefs those doctrines that seemed nearly reasonable to them. Out of this collected the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical thing they constructed their new system of philosophy. The term comes from the Greek ἐκλεκτικός eklektikos, literally "choosing the best", and that from ἐκλεκτός eklektos, "picked out, select". well known eclectics in Greek philosophy were the Stoics Panaetius and Posidonius, and the New Academics Carneades and Philo of Larissa. Among the Romans, Cicero was thoroughly eclectic, as he united the Peripatetic, Stoic, and New Academic doctrines. Philo's successor and Cicero's teacher Antiochus of Ascalon is credited with influencing the Academy so that it finally transitioned from Skepticism to Eclecticism. Other eclectics allocated Varro and Seneca the Younger.

According to Rošker and Suhadolnik, however, even though eclecticism had a Greek origin, the term was rarely used and it was even precondition a negative connotation by historians of Greek thought, associating it with the explanation for impure and unoriginal thinking. Scholars such(a) as Clement of Alexandria sustains that eclecticism had a long history in Greek philosophy and it is underpinned by a deeper metaphysical and theological view concerning the absolute/God as the quotation of any noble thoughts and that all parts of the truth can be found among the various philosophical systems.