How To Use Anthropocentric In A Sentence
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Paul's doctrine is "anthropocentric", that it starts from his conception of man's inability to fulfill the law of God without the help of grace to such an extent that he is a slave of sin and must wage war against the flesh.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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For decades, the consensus was that as young children begin reasoning about the biological world, they adopt an "anthropocentric" stance, favoring humans over non-human animals when it comes to learning about properties of animals.
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A theology focused anthropologically on ethical issues remains anthropocentric, not theocentric or Christocentric.
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We need to abandon the anthropocentric view that only big-brained animals such as ourselves, nonhuman great apes, elephants, and cetaceans dolphins and whales have sufficient mental capacities for complex forms of consciousness.
Marc Bekoff: Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism
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We turn ‘place’ into ‘land’ in the simple act of naming, revealing our anthropocentric impulse to qualify our surroundings based on their value for human use and consumption.
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Thus, ecocentric realization is an anthropocentric experience!
Ross Robertson: Perspectives on Integral Ecology: 1
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Ecocentrism is either partly or emphatically non-anthropocentric.
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The Q'eqchi’ have a much simpler, more anthropocentric view of the environment, and the Ladinos lie somewhere in the middle.
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Rather than restoring wild nature, Southern Californians would do better to think of the natural world around them as a large and wonderful set of gardens -- many Central Parks on a much grander scale -- designed by human beings for human aesthetic and other "anthropocentric" purposes, including the tight limitation of fire risks.
Man vs. Wild
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As such, Yellowstone reflects ‘the limitations and illusory power of nature preservation in a commodity-driven, anthropocentric culture’.
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our anthropocentric view of the world
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Clearly such a value - system is still anthropocentric.
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In general, however, since the Preamble does not create obligations, it is notably more ecocentric than the substantive articles, which reflect more anthropocentric concerns.
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It could also be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the center of all.
Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
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This is an anthropocentric approach, and implies equity between generations, although it doesn't call for it in the present.
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As I pointed out, one of the strengths of Gaian ethics is that its moral obligations can be justified from a purely anthropocentric position as well as from an ecocentric position.
Environmental ethics and the Gaia theory
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From an anthropocentric view in which we see our species as the ultimate achievement of evolution, other species look somewhat ‘incomplete’.
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Some depictions of heaven are strongly theocentric, portraying the blessed as caught up in an endless rapture of adoration; others are sociable and anthropocentric.
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If we forget that, we fall into anthropocentric arrogance.
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Generally, anthropocentric positions find it problematic to articulate what is wrong with the cruel treatment of nonhuman animals, except to the extent that such treatment may lead to bad consequences for human beings.
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A less anthropocentric view, however, might be that no life form alive today could survive if it were forced to compete head-to-head with all the microbes it meets.
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Glad your wild bird encounter didn't turn all Hitchcock...which would be just a different kind of anthropocentric nature poem, I guess.
The Mountain, Some Feathers, Strong Looking and Swoops
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Religion is anthropocentric; theology is theocentric.
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It could also be called anthropocentricity, with the individual seen as the center of everything that exists.
Solzhenitsyn, Belfast Pride and abortion
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It would be inappropriately anthropocentric to imagine that the entire universe resembles our little piece of it.
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He sees all species as collectively embraced by an environmental ethic that is anthropocentric.
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This leads the Stoics to a very anthropocentric view of the world, in which grain, olives and vines are for us to consume, sheep for clothing us with their fleeces, oxen for pulling our ploughs and so forth.
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Many traditional western ethical perspectives, however, are anthropocentric or human-centered in that either they assign intrinsic value to human beings alone (i.e., what we might call anthropocentric in a strong sense) or they assign a significantly greater amount of intrinsic value to human beings than to any nonhuman things such that the protection or promotion of human interests or well-being at the expense of nonhuman things turns out to be nearly always justified (i.e., what we might call anthropocentric in a weak sense).
Environmental Ethics
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For what believer doesn't have the sense that her view of God is too simple, too anthropocentric, too indulgent?
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The perspective is decidedly anthropocentric, a criticism that has been frequently levelled even at Richard Dawkins.
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They suggest that mainstream environmentalism shares a human-centred, "anthropocentric" stance towards the natural world.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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Gerald Warner says in the Daily Telegraph blog: Solzhenitsyn offended unforgivably against the politically correct liberal consensus, especially in deploring Western man's loss of awareness of the divine and cultivation of an 'anthropocentricity' dating from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
Archive 2008-08-01
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And even in the presence of conscious cyborgs, it seems that ethics hardly steps aside from its anthropocentric tradition.
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People, in their baldly anthropocentric way, experience rivers as obstacles, food sources, transportation devices, and beasts of burden.
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This is an artificial distinction and reflects our anthropocentric viewpoint; however, in the past the invertebrates were regarded as a formal taxonomic group of high rank.
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This sort of reality-show mockumentary interspersed with news footage of the attempted evictions (which see everything from an anthropocentric view, and get so much of the story wrong) is a sort of implicit criticism of the modern media age and how we humans handle themselves.
WATCHING: District 9
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For decades, the consensus was that as children begin reasoning about the biological world, they adopt only one -- markedly "anthropocentric" -- vantage point, favoring humans over non-human animals when it comes to learning about properties of animals.
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The point of ethics includes anthropocentric , non - anthropocentric and sustainable development environmental ethics study.
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However, the facts themselves, like facts about colour experience, combine anthropocentricity with realism.
Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
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It could also be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the center of everything that exists.
Harvard University Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)
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Some depictions of heaven are strongly theocentric, portraying the blessed as caught up in an endless rapture of adoration; others are sociable and anthropocentric.
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As such it is an anthropocentric philosophy in which it is accepted that the environment is instrumental in the fulfilment of human desires, and the importance of the environment can be justified in terms of what it can provide for humans.
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Up to now the environmental ethics has been only anthropocentric, that is to say an economics ethics that ignores man's responsibility for nature.
Ohmynews International
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In particular, the ruminative musings on anthropocentricity are virtually absent.
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It could also be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the centre of everything that exists.
Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
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We can't afford to take an essentially anthropocentric, short-term view of the future.
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I believe that behind all the truths which we can learn from a study of political science (such as the economic forces behind apparently ideologically motivated events, the structure of capitalist societies, etc., etc.) is something even deeper and more widespread, namely the arrogantly anthropocentric view of life which leads mankind to exploit Nature instead of respecting and harmonizing with Nature.
Address To The International Meeting Of Writers
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For Rolston, this ethic should not focus on the way that the Earth is valuable from an anthropocentric perspective, which may entail seeing it only as a resource, as a means to human ends.
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Marx's critique of ecocentrism reflects a practical-minded conviction that environmentalism must be anthropocentric (i.e. respectful of human interests) in order to be workable.
An Exchange on Thoreau