Anthropocentrism

today. In his article, White argued that Christianity is anthropocentric in nature, meaning that the religion views the world through a point of view that is human-centered. Subsequently, White makes a case regarding the role of Christianity 's anthropocentrism in contributing to the development of science and technology with a Western lens. As a consequence, White makes the statement that ecological disaster began to occur as more technology gave humanity power over nature. Lastly, he asserts…

transition. Another example is in ‘The Sentinel’ where the self/other binary is inverted as humans are seen as the ‘other’ and the aliens as the ‘self’ due to echelons of their intelligence. These statements will be further analyzed on how they affect anthropocentrism, traditional power norms, values, beliefs and interactions of humans with the environment and their surroundings. The self/other binary is organized into a pyramidal logic with the ‘self’ at the top of the pyramid and considered…

theories being discussed. One of the first things we learned about in this class was the idea of anthropocentrism. Anthropocentrism can include aspects of psychology, biology, sociology and ecology. In summary, this idea basically places humans over everything and…

paragraph reinforces this, giving more attention to the animals and their reactions to McKibben walking through their habitat. However, McKibben does not acknowledge his impact on the wilderness and animals. Leaving out that perspective shows the anthropocentrism in McKibben’s writing. The fourth paragraph could be read as biocentric, a characteristic of environmental writing. McKibben relates an awareness of his surroundings, which develops the idea that one must be conscious of their effect on…

According to Taylor, anthropocentrism is giving importance to the interests of humans above other species. He encourages us to have the bio-centric outlook towards nature. The overall basis for this theory is explained in four ways. The first component is: humans are non-privileged…

Andronicus and Midsummer's night Dream embody these fluid boundaries between the human and non-human, presenting an interaction that is surprisingly nuanced and ambiguous, offering a disturbance of the accepted certainties of set relations. Anthropocentrism…

The importance of literature can be seen in various aspects. Environmentally, literature tells the story of the relationships that humans share with the environment. Literature of Africa and the Caribbean use an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on different environmental concerns. In a sense, literature gives nature its voice. In this paper, I will outline the importance of the Feminist, Eco-Feminist, Eco-Imagination, Eco-Centric, and Eco-Efficiency. Ecocriticism is “ecologically…

The Birds: Anthropocene Warning or Comical Prank? Humanity was not always on Earth, despite the long debate of how humans came to be, humans have caused many changes to the Earth. Over the many years humans have been on Earth there have been many challenges humans have faced and overcome. They have tried to put together Earth’s record of a timeline through history, which is called Geological Time Scale. In this time scale the periods of time have been divided and called epoch(s). Each epoch has…

Yet, the modern human is still the only living model that displays habitual erect posture and bipedalism. This article points out that because of people’s anthropocentrism and belief that humans are superior to other species, modern bipedalism has often been believed to be the most successful form of bipedal locomotion. Those studying human locomotion sometimes fall into the belief that the bipedalism practiced…

The Renaissance era can be defined by its anthropocentrism; that is, the circumscribed belief that human exceptionalism is what separates human from beasts. In Boehrer's analysis of the literary and philosophical landscape of the Early Modern Renaissance writers, he posited the principles that guided this belief: "humans are radically different from all other life, this difference renders humans as superior to the rest of earthly creation and that this superiority designates the natural world…