Anthropocentrism

Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism

Marc Bekoff | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Human Exceptionalism, Anthropocentrism, Animal Protection, Animal Emotions, Speciesism, Environmentalism, Animal Rights, Denver News
Marc Bekoff

Nonhuman animals (animals) are magnificent and amazing beings. Surely we have no right to intrude wantonly into the lives of other animals or to judge them or blame them for our evil ways.

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Caretaker, Farmer, Citizen Or Creature: Four Biblical Voices On Our Relationship To Creation

Rabbi Lawrence Troster | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Stewardship Ethics, Book of Job, Land Ethic, Psalm 148, Environmentalism, Anthropocentrism, Psalm 8, Biocentrism, Aldo Leopold, Green Faith, Eco-Theology, Biblical Scholarship, Jewish Evironmentalism, Scripture Interpretation, Environmentalism in the Bible, Religion News
Rabbi Lawrence Troster

There are at least four different models in the Torah for the human relationship with Creation. Each voice comes from a different source and each one still has something to teach us today.

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The Inner Life: Nature And Transcendence

Ross Robertson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Consciousness, Michael Zimmerman, Gaia Worship, Integral Ecology, Anthropocentrism, Transcendance, Spirituality, Interiority, Mark Bekoff, Healthy Living News
Ross Robertson

I spent a good portion of my first twenty years chasing after that mysterious pulse of the endless so easily found in wilderness and wild places.

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Perspectives on Integral Ecology--2

Ross Robertson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Consciousness, Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Deep Ecology, Anthropocentrism, Integral Ecology, Michael Zimmerman, Martin Heidegger, Bill Devall, George Sessions, Healthy Living News
Ross Robertson

Animals (and presumably plants, too) have "worlds" of their own. Non-human life forms are not machines reacting to stimuli, but have their own ways of registering the phenomena that show up within their worlds.

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Perspectives on Integral Ecology: 1

Ross Robertson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Enlightennext Magazine, Bright Green, Anthropocentrism, Michael Zimmerman, Interiority, Integral Ecology, Integral Philosophy, Healthy Living News
Ross Robertson

We're terrified that in stepping above and outside of nature, we give ourselves license to use and abuse the biosphere for our own utilitarian ends.

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