anthropocentrism

English

Etymology

Originated 1905-1910, anthropocentric +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæn.θɹə.poʊˈsɛn.tɹɪz.m/

Noun

anthropocentrism (countable and uncountable, plural anthropocentrisms)

1. A viewpoint or theory that places human beings at the center of something, giving preference to human beings above all other considerations.

   Synonyms: homocentricism, humanocentrism

   • 2005, Val Plumwood, Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, Routledge (→ISBN), page 123:

     Is challenging anthropocentrism irrelevant and unhelpful? The arguments against human—centredness I have advanced in the previous chapter include a strongly prudential one for the human species — that anthropocentrism leads to […]

Related terms

• anthropocentric

Translations

viewpoint

• Catalan: antropocentrisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人類中心主義／人类中心主义, 人类中心主义 (rénlèizhōngxīnzhǔyì)

• Czech: antropocentrismus (cs) m
• Finnish: ihmiskeskeisyys (fi), antroposentrismi
• French: anthropocentrisme (fr) m
• German: Anthropozentrismus m
• Greek: ανθρωποκεντρισμός (el) m (anthropokentrismós)
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• Irish: antrapalárnachas m
• Latin: anthropocentrismus m
• Latvian: antropocentrisms m
• Polish: antropocentryzm (pl)
• Portuguese: antropocentrismo (pt) m
• Romanian: antropocentrism (ro) n
• Russian: антропоцентри́зм (ru) m (antropocentrízm)
• Spanish: antropocentrismo (es) m

Further reading

• anthropocentrism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia