(a.) Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thoreau's purpose is to reconcile us, after centuries of hazy anthropocentricity, to Nature as it is, relentless and remorseless.
(2) This article explores the interrelationships of environment, nursing, and caring and challenges the readers, particularly in light of the ecology crisis, to examine the apparent anthropocentric emphasis of current human care and caring theory.
(3) Despite appearances to the contrary (fostered by anthropocentric nursery stories), a distinct role for male parents does not exist in nature.
(4) The anagenetic approach is criticized as axiological and frequently anthropocentric.
(5) In its unsettlement of the entrenched binaries of modernity (nature and culture; object and subject), and its provocative alienation of familiar anthropocentric scales and times, it opens up rather than foreclosing progressive thought.
(6) These may be differentiated into two categories, anthropocentric ethics in which human interests prevail and biocentric ethics in which efforts are made to weigh the interests of man and animals more equitably.
(7) These positions are characterized as ethical skepticism and relativism, absolute dominionism, anthropocentric consequentialism, reverence for life, utilitarianism, and abolitionism.
(8) The anthropocentric bias, according to Gaylin, appropriately defends the risk of sacrificing the species of chimpanzees to relieve the suffering and premature death of many children on the grounds that man "stands above the general animal host."
(9) On this ground our reasoning led us to conclude that: (i) actual fitness measure units derive from an anthropocentric bias, and they mainly evaluate similarity to man rather than some objective parameter; (ii) a complete and meaningful unit is, at present, impossible to achieve in practice; (iii) since the study of evolution is only descriptive, and since the evolutionary process is time dependent, every ecological dominant living today must be considered as the most fitted to its environment; (iv) the view we can have of evolution is simply a transection, so that many generalized phyletic trees are trivial and it is impossible to claim the persistence today of those "ancestor organisms" upon which such trees are constructed.
(10) Starting with the latter, she shows how the lack of an 'anthropocentric orientation', the discouragement of egoistic and individualistic strivings, the doctrine of 'karma' and re-incarnation, all essential elements of traditional Hindu philosophy, and all pointing to an ultimate reality that goes beyond anything that speech or even thought can reach, leave very little to work on for someone who were to approach an entirely traditional Indian scene with the tools and methods of Western psychotherapy.
(11) According to the view adopted in this paper, bio-informational equivalence, in all its forms, has a deeply anthropocentric core which makes it unsuited for its present role as a quasi-theoretical perspective in biological science.
(12) The environmental holist (EH) claims that we must abandon the anthropocentric ethics of the TIs; however, the EHs suffer from both scientific and ethical problems.
(13) From our anthropocentric viewpoint, Q fever aerosol infection from parturient animals and Brill-Zinsser disease ignited epidemics of louse-borne epidemic typhus are exceptions.
(14) Spiritual worldliness is a form of religious anthropocentrism that has Gnostic elements.
Homocentric
Definition:
(a.) Having the same center.
Example Sentences:
(1) Author supported the homocentric conception in the ecology problem aricing.