单词 | anthropocentrism |
释义 | anthropocentrismn. Primary or exclusive focus on humanity; the view or belief that humanity is the central or most important element of existence, esp. as opposed to God or the natural world.In quot. 1897: primary or exclusive focus on men, rather than women. ΘΚΠ the world > people > anthropocentrism > [noun] > anthropocentrism anthropism1842 anthropinism1880 anthropocentricism1883 anthropocentricity1888 anthropocentrism1897 anthropocentrality1934 1897 Open Court Sept. 575 He proclaims the judgment day of social anthropocentrism. 1903 Folk-lore 14 433 We are now in a position to state more precisely in what anthropocentrism, better called sociocentrism, consists. 1941 A. Huxley Grey Eminence iii. 79 Theocentrism produces better ethical results than anthropocentrism and moralism. 1983 H. Atkins tr. K. S. Guthke Last Frontier (1990) v. 361 His anthropocentrism, which has ultimately a religious or at any rate supranaturalistic basis. 2006 D. Liddick Eco-terrorism 19 Deep ecology is a philosophy that promotes the idea of biocentrism as opposed to anthropocentrism, removing human beings from the philosophical center of the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1897 |
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