anthropocentrism
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English
Etymology
Originated 1905-1910, anthropocentric + -ism.[1] Equivalent to anthropo- + -centrism.
Pronunciation
Noun
anthropocentrism (countable and uncountable, plural anthropocentrisms)
- A viewpoint or theory that places human beings at the center of everything, giving preference to human beings above all other considerations.
- Synonyms: homocentricism, humanocentrism
- 2005, Val Plumwood, Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123:
- Is challenging anthropocentrism irrelevant and unhelpful? The arguments against human—centredness I have advanced in the previous chapter include a strongly prudential one for the human species — that anthropocentrism leads to […]
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Translations
viewpoint
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 anthropocentrism. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved February 28, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anthropocentrism
Further reading
- anthropocentrism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia