Crossword clues for anthropocentric
anthropocentric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anthropocentric \An`thro*po*cen"tric\, a. [Gr. ? man + ?
center.]
Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to
theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar
system.
--Draper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"regarding man as the center," 1855, from anthropo- + -centric. Related: Anthropocentrically.
Wiktionary
a. Placing humans at the center of something, giving preference to humans above all other considerations.
WordNet
adj. human-centered; "our anthropocentric view of the world"
Wikipedia
Anthropocentric is the fifth studio album by German metal band The Ocean Collective. It is the second album in a 2 album series, following Heliocentric. Anthropocentric continues the critique of Christianity as in its companion album Heliocentric. The album was released in North America on November 9, 2010.
Usage examples of "anthropocentric".
Dante, and you will find that to them the earth is the center of creation, that the infinite stars circle around it, and that man is the king of animals: a geocentric and anthropocentric illusion inspired by immeasurable conceit.
After the geocentric illusion had been destroyed, the anthropocentric illusion still remained.
While the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions have been dispelled, the illusion of the immobility and eternity of classes still persists.
Of course, so long as the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions dominate, it is natural that the lore of stability should impress itself upon science and life.
That was an anthropocentric fallacy that people had inherited from the ancient faiths and myths.
Some among the crew thought this conception smacked of anthropocentric chauvinism.
But premises so strongly geo- and anthropocentric were of questionable value.
No longer protected by anthropocentric gods and goddesses, reason gone flat in its happy capacity to explain away the Mystery, not yet delivered into the hands of the superconsciouswe stare out blankly into that dark and gloomy night, which will very shortly swallow us up as surely as it once spat us forth.
I dissent not to condone the intrusion of humankind into this ecosystem, but to protest a proceeding which will attempt on the basis of quantitative anthropocentric standards to determine the relative value of a lifeform against the desire of humankind to possess what this world has held until now unique within the rules established by its own genetic heritage.
Taken in substance it would have starved our species out of existence as soon as it had conceived the theory: our intelligence, whether anthropocentric or otherwise, advises us that we have ensured the survival of terrene species by our actions.
That damned judge, applying his anthropocentric standards to the Froggies.
Constructors were, I think, built with anthropocentric constraints incorporated into their awareness.
We need to stop telling ourselves the same old anthropocentric bedtime stories.
Foucault thus proposes the sexuo-linguistic theory of Jean-Pierre Brisset as an antidote to the anthropocentric structuralisms of Saussure, Lacan, and Chomsky.
In these passages cited above we can see sketched the premises and pretexts of that anthropocentric war.