2) Under
anthropocentric governance, only humans have rights and everything else is just an object to be used.
My feminist (9) reflection on this question is that we as Christians need to change the toxic
anthropocentric and androcentric worldview embedded in our tradition.
This relationship develops a view of nature as a metaphor of human consciousness that highlights an
anthropocentric view.
16) But it does not follow that all attempts to consider nature's meanings are
anthropocentric in any sense that ought to perturb environmental thinkers.
Lastly, "in black" casts Rider to be "in mourning" These three registers of Rider's subjectivity--a culturally located racial identity, a metacultural subjectivity of mobile and fluid borders, and the disorienting internal space of coping with severe loss--can be linked to a traumatic break that disimbricates Rider from the
anthropocentric humanism that contains and inhibits his personhood.
we will probably never have enough information to make a fully informed decision as to which course of action is the most rational from an
anthropocentric instrumental point of view" (2008, 58-59).
In the final analysis, Calvino's fictional world in The Castle of Crossed Destinies is bereft of
anthropocentric despotism.
Embracing an urbannatural ethic would require rejecting both
anthropocentric fantasies of domination over the natural world and radical ecological primitivism, and instead underscoring the inextricability of "nature" and "culture.
In hanging his bestiary from five fingers, Tyler means to release both our arguments and our nonhuman animal others from enslavement (from 'mancipium, literally "taken by hand"' to the emancipation of 'manumissus, "released from the hand"' (p264)) to the
anthropocentric view which makes man the measure of all things.
Sustainability, however, is an inherently
anthropocentric idea.
For this writer, the "Return of the King" ad was the best use of the iconic Clydesdales in recent memory, not jokey or
anthropocentric, but as powerful, galloping A-B symbols (That the ad twitted neo-prohibs by showing the grey cheerless world of Prohibition was an added plus).
From this I deduced that knowledge in the
anthropocentric disciplines would quickly become dated, whereas knowledge about the natural world would be more lasting--generally far beyond a human life span.
