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 ...Science displaced humans as the center of the Universe, and as a result, we can see reality more clearly.