anthropocentrism

anthropocentrism

English

Etymology

Originated 1905-1910, anthropocentric +‎ -ism.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæn.θɹə.poʊˈsɛn.tɹɪz.m/[1]

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

Armenian: անթրոպոցենտրիզմ (hy) (antʿropocʿentrizm) Azerbaijani: antroposentrizm Bashkir: антропоцентризм (antropotsentrizm) Catalan: antropocentrisme (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 人類中心主義／人类中心主义 (rénlèizhōngxīnzhǔyì) Czech: antropocentrismus (cs) m Finnish: ihmiskeskeisyys (fi), antroposentrismi French: anthropocentrisme (fr) m Galician: antropocentrismo (gl) m German: Anthropozentrismus m Greek: ανθρωποκεντρισμός (el) m (anthropokentrismós) Irish: antrapalárnachas m Italian: antropocentrismo (it) m Japanese: 人間中心主義 (にんげんちゅうしんしゅぎ, ningenchūshinshugi) Kazakh: антропоцентризм (antroposentrizm) Korean: 인간중심주의(人間中心主義) (in'ganjungsimjuui) Kyrgyz: антропоцентризм (antropotsentrizm) Latin: anthropocentrismus m Latvian: antropocentrisms m Lithuanian: antropocentrizmas m Persian: انسان‌محوری‎ Polish: antropocentryzm (pl) Portuguese: antropocentrismo (pt) m Romanian: antropocentrism (ro) n Russian: антропоцентри́зм (ru) m (antropocentrízm) Spanish: antropocentrismo (es) m Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa duy con người (主義唯𡥵𠊛)

References

1. anthropocentrism. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved February 28, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anthropocentrism

Further reading

• anthropocentrism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia