But if nothing in nature is aimless or useless, this is not to be interpreted in a narrow anthropocentric spirit.
It shows how desperate, at heart, is the folly of an egotistic or anthropocentric philosophy.
Do we find a different state of things in the history of peoples, which man, in his anthropocentric presumption, loves to call "the history of the world"?
Christ himself had no knowledge whatever of astronomy--indeed, he looked out upon heaven and earth, nature and man, from the very narrowest geocentric and anthropocentricpoint of view.
To us, this terse saying of Mr. Chesterton’s seemed to contain unintentionally the root of all cruelty to animals, the quintessence of anthropocentric arrogance.
The anthropocentric has succeeded the theocentric view of the world.
But it received its chief support on the zoological side from Anton Dohrn, who maintained the anthropocentric ideas of Snell with particular ability.
Gradually the anthropocentric illusion has been compelled to give way before the results of science, and today the theories of Darwin have become established among our ideas.
While the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions have been dispelled, the illusion of the immobility and eternity of classes still persists.
After the geocentric illusion had been destroyed, the anthropocentric illusion still remained.
Of course, so long as the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions dominate, it is natural that the lore of stability should impress itself upon science and life.
The anthropocentric illusion rebelled against the word of Darwin, accusing him of lowering the human life to the level of the dirt or of the brute.
The anthropocentric exclusiveness of Christianity was from ancient times to some extent counterbalanced by popular sentiments and beliefs.
Among the Hebrews the harshness of this anthropocentric doctrine was somewhat mitigated by the sympathy which a simple pastoral and agricultural people naturally feels for its domestic animals.
Progress of Man from the Anthropocentric Ideas to the Discovery of his true Position and Insignificance in the Universe.
Sidenote: Anthropocentric ideas of the beginning and end of the world.
Progress of Man from Anthropocentric Ideas to the Discovery of his true Position and Insignificance in the Universe.
Besides, he calls it an anthropocentricerror to look upon man as a preconceived aim of creation and a true final purpose of terrestrial life; and on page 17, of Vol.
The anthropocentric view recognizes in man's mind the highest bloom of matter, which has attained to the possession of a soul.
How utterly baseless these {163} presumptuous anthropocentric conceptions are, nothing could evince more strikingly than a comparison of the duration of the Anthropozoic or Quaternary Epoch with that of the preceding Epochs.
To classify plants according to their uses and medicinal properties is obviously the first suggestion that arises, when the universe is regarded from a simple, anthropocentric standpoint.
Comparative Theology of India; its Phase of Sorcery; its Anthropocentric Phase.
Comparative Theology of Greece; the Stage of Sorcery, the Anthropocentric Stage.
Sidenote: The phase of sorcery, andanthropocentric phase.
In the most ancient records remaining the Hindu mind is dealing withanthropocentric conceptions, not, however, so much of the physical as of the moral kind.
Sidenote: Disappearance of the philosophical classes, and consequent prominence of anthropocentric ideas.
This is merely an anthropocentric feeling that in the strictly scientific sense "history" can only be used for the record of man's doings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anthropocentric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: earthborn; earthy; finite; fleshly; frail; human; mortal; weak
