biocentrismn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈsɛntˌrɪzəm/ In early use: the treatment of life in general (rather than just human life) as a central fact of the universe (cf. anthropocentrism n.). Now chiefly: the view or belief that the rights and needs of humans are not more important than those of other living things. Cf. biocentric adj.
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1933 Psychol. Rev. 40 209 Anthropocentrism and its competitor for support, biocentrism, should be encouraged, each for its peculiar values.
1934 E. B. Jordan tr. F. de Hovre Catholicism in Educ. ii. 49 Biocentrism. Modern thinkers have essayed to..make life, as revealed by the science of biology, the center of their philosophy.
1973 BioScience 23 535/3 The goal of biocentrism is to maintain at least approximately natural energy flows within a wilderness ecosystem.
1989 N.Y. Times 9 July 6 e/1 At the root of radical environmentalism is a philosophy called biocentrism.
1996 High Country News 27 May 16/2 Biocentrism..holds that all organisms are of equal value.
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 is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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