anthropocentrism

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the belief or tendency to treat human beings, human interests, or human values as central or uniquely important

   Russell links metaphysical anthropocentrism with the older belief that Earth occupies the center of the cosmos.

From anthropocentric + -ism. Anthropocentric combines anthropo-, from Ancient Greek anthropos ("human being"), with centric, from Greek kentron ("center"). The noun arose for a worldview organized around human perspective or value.

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