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anthropocentric /an·thro·po·cen·tric/ (an?thro-po-sen´trik) with a human bias; considering humans the center of the universe.
anthropocentric with a human bias; considering humans to be the center of the universe. |
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| Though generous in his praise of creative thought in Russian Orthodoxy, he inevitably discomfited traditionalists who saw him as a "victim of his time" who harbored, from his early Marxist days, anti-clerical sentiments, an excessive anthropocentric propensity to glorify human powers of creativity, a romantic inclination to blur the lines between flawed human nature and divine perfection, and an idiosyncratic tendency to hold views akin to Gnosticism. Green, "Grabau and Walther: Theocentric versus Anthropocentric Understanding of Church and Ministry," Logia (Eastertide 1996), 25-40. 18) Yet, looking over the other side of the fence, it is fair to say that many environmental historians have viewed social history--unapologetically and appropriately the most anthropocentric branch of the profession--with a considerable degree of suspicion. |
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