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Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism (Greek ανθροπος, anthropos, "man, human being", χεντρον, kentron, "center") means the practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and/or concerns of human beings as the central fact of the universe and of relating all that happens in the universe to human beings. The related adjective is anthropocentric.

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