Definition of biocentrism in English:
biocentrism
noun bʌɪəʊˈsɛntrɪz(ə)mˌbīōˈsentrizəm
mass nounThe view or belief that the rights and needs of humans are not more important than those of other living things.
Example sentencesExamples
- The well-intentioned exhortation to replace anthropocentrism with biocentrism, if pushed very far, becomes a curious contradiction.
- Paul Taylor's version of this view, which we might call biocentrism, is a deontological example.
- Even Dear argues for the overriding importance of biocentrism.
- I think in my biocentrism, which is a hard row to hoe in an anthropocentric, increasingly anthropogenic world.
- In the dominant U.S. worldview and value system biocentrism is counter-intuitive. The middle-class and striving to be middle-class college students I teach just don't get it.
- It is loosely knit somewhat international movement of different groups and individuals who subscribe to the philosophy of biocentrism - that biology must be at the center of concerns as environmental activists.
- Steve Gillett suggests a hybrid view that combines anthropocentrism as applied to terrestrial activity with biocentrism for worlds with indigenous life.
- Thus, a trend toward what as called biocentrism emerged.
- Accordingly, environmental philosophers have spent the last thirty or so years pursuing various forms of nonanthropocentrism, including biocentrism and ecocentrism.
Derivatives
adjective
But how, they ask, in this society where rules about human behavior and morality come from the laws of the jungle where aggressive competition is deeply ingrained from kindergarten, can we survive and prosper with a biocentric outlook?
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the high points for me was the discussion of anthropocentric vs. biocentric perspectives in Chapter 5; the arguments and examples presented here were enlightening.
- We've benefited enormously from people who insist on taking a biocentric perspective, but we're not going to solve the problem if we're not going to deal with humans.
- Bryson believes Cooper anticipates the views of both Rachel Carson and Loren Eiseley who, as scientists, find ways to use science as a means to a new biocentric environmental ethic.
- A biocentric planetary religion that promotes ecological ethics would be ideal but I do not envision such an innovation until it is too late.
noun
I have a similar problem with a fully biocentrist attitude to the ‘human’ world.
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet biocentrists or ecocentrists may demand more caution, because of the wider range of ethics.
- Lanza proposes a biocentrist theory which ascribes the answer to the observer rather than the observed.
- And at that point he will have conceded the core truth of the biocentrist and wise anthropocentrist position.
- Left biocentrists are concerned with social justice and class issues, but within a context of ecology.