Anthropocentrism (Please respond)

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• anthropocentricism
• humanity
• species
• metaphor
• consciousness
• reflexivity
• theory of mind
• animality
• awareness
• self-awareness
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[SergeantVanek]

Anything invoking 'rights' is bound to be anthropocentric-talk, but I think there are points at which you conflate anthropocentrism with 'from the human perspective'. I'm not sure they're the same thing. Surely, we can never escape the latter, but if we understand anthropocentrism as 'taking the human species to be the most significant in the universe' then I think we can lessen our degree of anthropecentrism, EVEN IF this involves methods peculiar to human beings.

[Professoranton]

@SergeantVanek Good call. Thanks. I really don't like this video. I might remove it. I increasingly think that the claim of "anthropocentrism" can be used quite usefully as a critique within various contexts. It seems to be a non-position or "a strategically employed COUNTER-POSITION,' which has various merits but only depending upon the context(s) which drew it out.

[DHruska93]

Please...stay safe

[kingbooforums]

please respond

[TheNickthequik]

a tree itself isn't just 'good' because we use it to breath... wood... etc..... a tree is good on its own. that is the case with every natural thing on this planet. an ant is equally amazing as a blue whale. no animals worry about us.. because they only base their being on intuition... they are the environment... where we removed ourselves... developing crazy ass ways of living. we stoped evolving.. rather than adapting to the environment.. we adapt the environment to us.

[tvswnet]

I think you've hit the crux of the problem of labels and -isms. Animals are likely not worried about anything since worrying is likely a self-defeating practice that only humans engage in. They simply live in harmony with their world...they don't need scientific studies...they're in sync with nature..we can do it to. Of course we always have a human perspective...to assert otherwise seems odd; that said, we can/should recognize other species as being as whole and as miraculous as we are.

[asasasarap]

This blunt realisation is a good start in order to get rid of what I call human spieces ego misery and maybe a chance to evolve to something higher.The next step is one I have not yet answered.Why are we in the same time so similar and diferrent with other mammals,what affected us and made us diferrent and if there is a purpose and a meaning to all this for all or for some.

[asasasarap]

You're making a little mistake.The core idea of anti anthropocentrism is not equality with animals.(although a result can be more appreciation and respect to other life forms).It's the fundamental realisation that our reality and logic is not objective or unique because the interpretation of our outside world is directly related to our spieces.

[useyourtongue]

also, youre kind of self-contradicting yourself if i may comment.

you are implying that the human who uses its inherent abilities to make a difference is anthropocentric. this implies one thing: the human should steer clear of ecological issues because its not superior to other species and should thus not attempt to change anything. well, i think youre being anthropocentric right there, youre wanting the human to not use its natural abilities (thinking, talking and sticking) just to be equal.

[useyourtongue]

stop trying to think out side of the box - because that would be great but youre really making no sense.

promoting anti-anthropocentrism is not anthropocentric. it is merely using the ability that that human has to promote to the world (to the other humans) that the view that man has dominion over all the earth is wrong. yes, it would be human-centered if the man was sticking that sticker in the hope of a pigeon reading it - but the sticker was for the human eye.

[tanan70]

cmeracionalism is anthropocentrism.

[IdaMiaDot]

If you took all the raw processing power of an elephant's brain, and all the raw processing power of a human's brain and somehow set them both to just process binary code; the elephant's brain would quite possibly (if not plausibly) be able to process greater amounts of binary. That is via their extra 100 billion neurons and more complex and numerous brain gyri patterns. Although, I'm not sure; it's just possible. As stated, what it is that makes humans so smart is not explicitly defined.