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An inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values
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anthropocentrism
Word definitions for anthropocentrism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1897; see anthropocentric + -ism .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
anthropocentrism \anthropocentrism\ n. 1. 1 an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values. Syn: anthropocentricity.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A viewpoint or theory that places human beings at the center of something, giving preference to human beings above all other considerations.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values [syn: anthropocentricity ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Anthropocentrism (; from Greek ἄνθρωπος, ánthrōpos , "human being"; and κέντρον, kéntron , "center") is the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet (in the sense that they are considered to have a moral status ...
Usage examples of anthropocentrism.
And a world made unsafe for mysticism and theocentric religion is a world where the only proved method of transforming personality will be less and less practiced, and where fewer and fewer people will possess any direct, experimental knowledge of reality to set up against the false doctrine of totalitarian anthropocentrism and the pernicious ideas and practices of nationalistic pseudo-mysticism.
One sees how much, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the hegemonism of possessing minorities, unveiled by Marx and Engels, and the anthropocentrism dismantled by Freud are accompanied by europocentrism in the area of human and social sciences, and more particularly in those in direct relationship with non-European peoples.
For what we find as we carefully study Piaget is that the productions of, say, the preoperational mind initially look very holistic, very interconnected, very "religious" in a sense, until we even barely scratch the surface and find the whole production supported by egocentrism, artificialism, finalism, anthropocentrism, and indissociation.