Microcosmos, Macrocosmos, Experience

Since Plato's 'writ small'-'writ large' contrast, many philosophers have recognized that both a world is within a subject, and a subject is within a world.  This contrast has been variously characterized as 'subjective'-'objective', 'appearance'-'reality', 'ontological'-'ontic', etc., with, in at least most cases, one or the other of the pair accorded priority.  Now, as has been previously proposed here, another characterization of the contrast is 'microcosmos'-'macrocosmos', in which neither is a privileged dimension of human experience.  Accordingly, on this model, experience is constituted by the coordination of the realms, not by a reduction of either to the other.