anthropocentric

How To Use anthropocentric In A Sentence

• The point of ethics includes anthropocentric , non - anthropocentric and sustainable development environmental ethics study.
• 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.
• 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
• For what believer doesn't have the sense that her view of God is too simple, too anthropocentric, too indulgent?
• The perspective is decidedly anthropocentric, a criticism that has been frequently levelled even at Richard Dawkins.
• They suggest that mainstream environmentalism shares a human-centred, "anthropocentric" stance towards the natural world. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• 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
• And even in the presence of conscious cyborgs, it seems that ethics hardly steps aside from its anthropocentric tradition.
• People, in their baldly anthropocentric way, experience rivers as obstacles, food sources, transportation devices, and beasts of burden.
• 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.