Encyclopedia > Anthropocentrism

  Article Content

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.

See also:



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Thomas a Kempis

... of Christ," was born at Kempen[?], Germany (40 miles northwest of Cologne) in 1380 and died near Zwolle (52 miles east-north-east of Amsterdam) in 1471. His paternal ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 24.4 ms