The phrase "a distant perspective" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing viewpoints or opinions that are not immediate or close, often implying a broader or more detached view on a subject.
Example: "When analyzing the situation, it's important to consider a distant perspective to understand the long-term implications of our actions."
Alternatives: "a remote viewpoint" or "an external outlook".
Self-reflection is a learning process that requires a distant perspective on one's own behavior, in context.
In discussing the third point, she notes (observation #3) that different taxonomies entail different ways of apply the law, and (prediction #3) she formulates the hypothesis that, in a distant perspective in which folksonomies would replace taxonomies, the result would be a whole new way to apply the law.
There's no question that taking a distant perspective can be helpful.
Silver noted that "Cities are beautiful from afar, but up close their charm becomes less evident". Her substantial pieces titled "Versailles," "Downtown" and "LAX" prove that a distant perspective does, indeed, give you the larger picture.
And there are witty, offbeat treatments like "Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival," whose skewed perspective reveals a distant view of a temple celebration watched by a cat in a brothel window right under the viewer's nose.
The second phase of Ricoeur's (2004, 136) historical operation, explanation/understanding, is, as he puts it, concerned with "responding to the question 'why?': Why did things happen like that and not otherwise?" According to Ricoeur (2004, 235), answering such questions requires adjusting the scale of historical description from a local to a more distant perspective.
Though no-one wants to pointlessly open old wounds, my young Salvadoran and Chilean colleagues agree that being born after the fact gives us a more distant perspective and an honest curiosity for understanding the events that have shaped our present.
Today at Giants Stadium, with his players off, Fassel reached for a more distant perspective and saw Sunday's game as the reflection of this season.
Snaking through its chapters is a restless omniscient voice that nudges us from one character's perspective to another, asks us to examine our opinion of a character's actions, or suddenly shows us the current point-of-view character from a more distant perspective, jarring us from the place we've been occupying behind that character's eyes.
"As annuals should do it steps back and takes a more distant perspective than daily reporters are able to do.
As adults, children of parents with psychiatric disorders are able to reflect on their childhood experiences from a more distant perspective.
