panoptic

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If we treat our tradition's theological system as a panoptic structure that gives us an unobstructed view of all the biblical data, I think we grossly overreach our cognitive powers and disfigure our ethics.

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  1. adjective Including everything visible in one view.

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  • The detached scrutiny of Cantet's cameras is analogous to the panoptic control the students will face throughout their lives as they negotiate their ways through an EU economy and a distrustful indigenous population. —  One-Way Street
  • In places the only thing separating them is the roadway itself, panoptic water enchanting travelers with the deliciously disorienting sensation that they've become one with the sea.
  • If we treat our tradition's theological system as a panoptic structure that gives us an unobstructed view of all the biblical data, I think we grossly overreach our cognitive powers and disfigure our ethics. —  The Boar's Head Tavern
  • Experimental Geography presents a panoptic view of this new practice through a wide range of mediums including interactive computer units, sound and video installations, photography, sculpture, and experimental cartography created by 18 artists or artist teams from six countries as well as the United States. —  DePauw University News
  • If recent massive police preemptive actions in St. Paul during the run-up to the Republican National Convention are an indication of the direction "counterterrorist operations" are heading we can only surmise that the NYPD's LMSI represent nothing less than a quantum leap towards the construction of a panoptic surveillance state. —  Dandelion Salad
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  1. From Greek panoptos, fully visible : pan-, with respect to everything, fully; see pan- + optos, visible; see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Greek πανόπτης, all-seeing, + -ic.
 

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