单词 | anthropocentric |
释义 | anthropocentricadj. Centring on humanity or human beings; regarding humanity as the central or most important element of existence, esp. as opposed to God or the natural world. ΘΚΠ the world > people > anthropocentrism > [adjective] > anthropocentrism anthropocentric1855 homocentric1901 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > social ethics > [adjective] > of other doctrines and their adherents anthropocentric1855 Wellsian1905 totalistic1932 neo-Marxist1933 1855 Evangelical Christendom 9 79/1 What great injury this anthropocentric mode of contemplation would inflict upon the Universities. 1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. ii. 38 The anthropocentric error, that Man is the premeditated aim of the creation of the earth. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1001 His [sc. Aristotle's] philosophy was anthropocentric, for ‘plants are evidently for the sake of animals and animals for the sake of Man’. 1981 E. R. Harrison Cosmology i. 1/1 Now, in the modern Scientific Age, having abandoned the anthropomorphic and anthropocentric viewpoints, we have devised a physical universe. 2009 Nature 10 Dec. 720/4 Compare..the anthropocentric mainstream Muslim position that humanity has responsibility for Allah's creation, which has been given to us as a gift, with the biocentric Jain belief that every being..has a soul and should be treated with respect. Derivatives anthropocenˈtricity n. the quality or state of being anthropocentric; anthropocentrism. ΘΚΠ the world > people > anthropocentrism > [noun] > anthropocentrism anthropism1842 anthropinism1880 anthropocentricism1883 anthropocentricity1888 anthropocentrism1897 anthropocentrality1934 1888 19th Cent. Jan. 153 The human element involved or suggested in the idea of fitness is nothing to the humanity, or ‘anthropocentricity’, of the expressions into which he slips. 1958 ‘E. Crispin’ Best SF 3 13 To say that A is sated with anthropocentricity in fiction, and B not, is only the beginning of an answer. 2010 Church Times 26 Mar. 23/1 A significant problem faced by SETI is our inevitable and inescapable anthropocentricity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1855 |
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