(1) A less anthropocentric view, however, might be that no life form alive today could survive if it were forced to compete head-to-head with all the microbes it meets.(2) As such, Yellowstone reflects ‘the limitations and illusory power of nature preservation in a commodity-driven, anthropocentric culture’.(3) This leads the Stoics to a very anthropocentric view of the world, in which grain, olives and vines are for us to consume, sheep for clothing us with their fleeces, oxen for pulling our ploughs and so forth.(4) For Rolston, this ethic should not focus on the way that the Earth is valuable from an anthropocentric perspective, which may entail seeing it only as a resource, as a means to human ends.(5) The perspective is decidedly anthropocentric , a criticism that has been frequently levelled even at Richard Dawkins.(6) This is an artificial distinction and reflects our anthropocentric viewpoint; however, in the past the invertebrates were regarded as a formal taxonomic group of high rank.(7) As such it is an anthropocentric philosophy in which it is accepted that the environment is instrumental in the fulfilment of human desires, and the importance of the environment can be justified in terms of what it can provide for humans.(8) Some depictions of heaven are strongly theocentric, portraying the blessed as caught up in an endless rapture of adoration; others are sociable and anthropocentric .(9) If we forget that, we fall into anthropocentric arrogance.(10) People, in their baldly anthropocentric way, experience rivers as obstacles, food sources, transportation devices, and beasts of burden.(11) From an anthropocentric view in which we see our species as the ultimate achievement of evolution, other species look somewhat ‘incomplete’.(12) We can't afford to take an essentially anthropocentric , short-term view of the future.(13) We turn ‘place’ into ‘land’ in the simple act of naming, revealing our anthropocentric impulse to qualify our surroundings based on their value for human use and consumption.(14) He sees all species as collectively embraced by an environmental ethic that is anthropocentric .(15) It would be inappropriately anthropocentric to imagine that the entire universe resembles our little piece of it.(16) This is an anthropocentric approach, and implies equity between generations, although it doesn't call for it in the present.
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