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Sentences with anthropocentric

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  • We can't afford to take an essentially anthropocentric, short-term view of the future.
  • People, in their baldly anthropocentric way, experience rivers as obstacles, food sources, transportation devices, and beasts of burden.
  • This is an artificial distinction and reflects our anthropocentric viewpoint; however, in the past the invertebrates were regarded as a formal taxonomic group of high rank.
  • If we forget that, we fall into anthropocentric arrogance.
  • It is simply new, and evolution over time may show only if it is anthropocentrically positive or negative.
  • As such it is an anthropocentric philosophy in which it is accepted that the environment is instrumental in the fulfilment of human desires, and the importance of the environment can be justified in terms of what it can provide for humans.
  • For Rolston, this ethic should not focus on the way that the Earth is valuable from an anthropocentric perspective, which may entail seeing it only as a resource, as a means to human ends.
  • First, they anthropocentrically fail to account for species difference.
  • He is a righteous man, but a man who understands righteousness individualistically, anthropocentrically, and deterministically.
  • A less anthropocentric view, however, might be that no life form alive today could survive if it were forced to compete head-to-head with all the microbes it meets.
  • And even in the presence of conscious cyborgs, it seems that ethics hardly steps aside from its anthropocentric tradition.
  • We turn ‘place’ into ‘land’ in the simple act of naming, revealing our anthropocentric impulse to qualify our surroundings based on their value for human use and consumption.
  • Generally, anthropocentric positions find it problematic to articulate what is wrong with the cruel treatment of nonhuman animals, except to the extent that such treatment may lead to bad consequences for human beings.
  • The unknowable is not just due to indeterminable causal evolutions and randomicity, but also very much due to the way questions about it are anthropocentrically formulated.
  • This leads the Stoics to a very anthropocentric view of the world, in which grain, olives and vines are for us to consume, sheep for clothing us with their fleeces, oxen for pulling our ploughs and so forth.
  • This is an anthropocentric approach, and implies equity between generations, although it doesn't call for it in the present.
  • For what believer doesn't have the sense that her view of God is too simple, too anthropocentric, too indulgent?
  • The perspective is decidedly anthropocentric, a criticism that has been frequently levelled even at Richard Dawkins.
  • Viewed anthropocentrically, sustainable development is about improving the quality of human life while maintaining Earth's life supporting biogeophysical systems and ecological processes.
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