anthropocentrism

Examples from literature

After the geocentric illusion had been destroyed, the anthropocentric illusion still remained. 
Among the things it hadn't attained to was the easy anthropocentric attitude that is part of our civilisation. 
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. 
The anthropocentric illusion rebelled against the word of Darwin, accusing him of lowering the human life to the level of the dirt or of the brute. 
While the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions have been dispelled, the illusion of the immobility and eternity of classes still persists. 

Examples of anthropocentric

anthropocentric
Let us, purely for convenience, indiscriminately lump together all such values within the category of 'anthropocentric values'.
This does seem to be a somewhat anthropocentric viewpoint and one, moreover, that effectively replaces the old culture/nature dualism with a human/non-human dualism.
They would seem to be judging their study species according to the anthropocentric standards that they reject.
The design argument is portrayed as anthropocentric in that it models the operation of the physical world on man.
Colors are fully objective; color types, both determinate and determinable, are anthropocentric.
My fourth point is that a contemplative archaeology is a 'path of preparation' that leads beyond archaeology's contemporary anchorage in traditional anthropocentric metaphysics.
That is, its anthropocentric starting point is questionable.
The caricature might be extreme, but the argument from design did express an anthropocentric and optimistic teleology.
That is to say, the case for addressing environmental problems is grounded in anthropocentric human utility arguments.
A less anthropocentric proposal would see earthly living as aimed at some sort of wider mastery of earthly experience.
In the early twentieth century, recording and reproduction technology began to seriously impact this anthropocentric dynamic, while composers experimented with sound generation using electromechanical means.
But to appreciate the power of this argument, we must learn to give up anthropocentric ways of thinking.
The "fast and frugal" approach is particularly interesting to us as primatologists because of the essentially anthropocentric approach taken with studies of primate cognition.
Do they aim to consolidate our inherited image of the manifest world or replace it with a new, less anthropocentric and more objective one?
Denying then that it is conscious merely because in humans consciousness is normally accompanied by language appears unjustifiably anthropocentric.
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