10 JUN 2011 by ideonexus

 Non-Anthropocentricm as a Virtue

Anthropocentrism isn’t just a faulty value system, but also a faulty way of understanding the world. Modern science has shown this, displacing human beings from the center of the universe, opening up immense vistas of space and time, telling a story of life in which chance, not destiny, has raised an unusual primate to dominance for a short time on a tiny planet in one insignificant corner of the universe. We know this, of course. But our daily experience tends to contradict it, as we walk ...
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Science displaced humans as the center of the Universe, and as a result, we can see reality more clearly.