anthropocentrism

Examples

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• The ultimate act of anthropocentrism is to assume that other species do not feel, do not suffer, are not sentient beings.

• The belief in anthropocentrism can lead to practices that ignore the needs of other species.

• The very idea is too tainted by anthropocentrism.

  Academic text (1997)

• Green political thought, disdaining anthropocentrism, is concerned with the preservation of nature the world over.

  Academic text (2000)

• Deep ecology represents a basic shift in ways of seeing and valuing, a shift beyond anthropocentrism.

  Academic text (1993)

• Since nature and humans, and human consciousness and the material world are not clearly distinguished, an ecological modesty, rather than a solipsistic anthropocentrism, is required.

  Academic text (2018)

• If they are to be efficacious for and relevant to our day, ecological principles must be able to mitigate an anthropocentrism that has proved disastrous to nature.

  Academic text (2009)

• Although these narratives should not be expelled from the curriculum, students should be made aware of the anthropocentrism in Western metanarratives and should be exposed to alternative ecologically centered narratives as a major part of their educational and life experience.

  Academic text (1998)

• Paradoxically, this epoch denotes a time in which we are becoming increasingly aware that we are just one of many species that might go extinct, and that there will be a time after us, thus complicating the anthropocentrism that has characterized our culture for centuries.

  Academic text (2018)

• Critics argue that anthropocentrism fosters a disconnect between humans and the natural world.

Synonyms

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anthropocentricity

vsanthropocentrism

9.9

To think that humans are more important than other living things

asserts that humans are the central and most important entities in the universe

How Human-Centered

anthropocentrism

1 9.9

humanism

19 6.1

Surface Forms

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Etymology