Meaning of anthropocentrismus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. anthropocentrism
   New-Latin, declension-2, masculine
2. Equivalent to 'anthropocentrism': A viewpoint or theory that places human beings at the center of everything, giving preference to human beings above all other considerations.

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“2015, Pope Franciscus, “Laudato si’. http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/la/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html, Litterae Encyclicae, Vatican”

Modern anthropocentrism has paradoxically ended up prizing technical thought over reality, since “the technological mind sees nature as an insensate order, as a cold body of facts, as a mere ‘given’, as an object of utility, as raw material to be hammered into useful shape; it views the cosmos similarly as a mere ‘space’ into which objects can be thrown with complete indifference”.

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