Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism is a term used to describe our human-centrism” or “speciesism,” not unlike “racism,” “ageism,” or “sexism”; it is contrasted to “egocentrism” or “biocentrism.” The practise of treating the human species as if it were the centre of all values and the measure of all things.
- Anthropocentrism primary(ego inner-circle)
- human beings
- state of being human
- personhood
- Higher animals Secondary
- pathocentrism
- ability to suffer
- Biocentrism
- all living beings
- state of being alive
- Holism
- animate
- inanimate
- supra-organismic wholes
- existence
See deep ecology Strong sustainability and weak sustainability.
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