Anthropocentrism
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"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" --George Berkeley, 1710 When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?--Montaigne The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it --Lichtenberg "All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its own contingency." --Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity. |
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Anthropocentrism (from Greek: άνθρωπος, anthropos, "human being"; and κέντρον, kentron, "center") is the belief that humans must be considered at the center of, and above any other aspect of, reality. This concept is sometimes known as Humanocentrism.
In fiction
In science-fiction, humanocentrism is the idea that humans, as both beings and a species, are the superior sentients. Essentially the equivalent of race supremacy on a galactic scale, it entails intolerant discrimination against sentient non-humans, much like race supremacists discriminate against those not of their race. This idea is countered by anti-humanism. At times, this ideal also includes fear of and superiority over strong AIs and cyborgs, downplaying the ideas of integration, cybernetic revolts, machine rule and Tilden's Laws of Robotics.
See also
- Anthropic principle
- Anthropocene
- Antihumanism
- Anthropocentric embodied energy analysis
- Biocentrism
- Carbon chauvinism
- Deep Ecology
- Ecocentrism
- Ecofeminism
- Existentialism
- Great ape personhood
- Great chain of being
- Gynocentrism
- Hot cognition
- Intrinsic value (animal ethics)
- Speciesism
- Technocentrism
- Theocentricism
