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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Anthropocentrism"”.
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Exploding anthropocentrism: understanding optical democracy in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
In this study, I will attempt to synthesize the aesthetic and metaphysical conceptions of optical democracy. While several critics contend that the concept of optical democracy influences all of McCarthy’s novels, I will limit this treatment to Blood Meridian. By focusing one this one text, I will …
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Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism
… which help us move beyond philosophical anthropocentrism. Rather than being absolute antipodes to these developments, Hegel's theories are adaptable enough to be a useful resource for non-teleological, non-anthropocentric, and non-Eurocentric theories. Part three focuses on the role of …
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Othas and environment in animal ethics and environmental philosophy : ontology and ethical motivation beyond the dichotomies of anthropocentrism.
… the possibility of ontology and ethics beyond anthropocentrism, in which relationships between beings are based on neither identity nor difference alone, but rather on ‘indistinction’. There is a particular focus on how mainstream western philosophy and science suffer from a failure to …
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An EcoJustice analysis of dis/ability: Reimagining diversity and inclusion
… value systems –– especially individualism and anthropocentrism. These are modern discourses that work to rationalize the denial of power and privilege to some through the illusion of the human as separate and superior to all other life. This work uses an EcoJustice Education approach to …
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Confronting the Tree of Life: Three Court Cases in Modern American History
… the previously unquestioned tradition of anthropocentrism, which held that humans were distinct from and superior to other species. In order to discern common descent's impact on anthropocentrism, I will examine three court cases from an eighty-year span of American history, where …
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Theological Foundations for an Ethics of Cosmocentric Transfiguration: Navigating the Eco-Theological Poles of Conservation, Transfiguration, Anthropocentrism, and Cosmocentrism with Regard to the Relationship Between Humans and Individual Nonhuman Animals
… and transfiguration, and, on the other, anthropocentrism and cosmocentrism. The variations within these poles yield the four paradigms.</p><p> The first paradigm is anthropocentric conservation, represented by Thomas Aquinas. It maintains that humanity bears an essentially unique dignity …
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Green political theory: nature, virtue and progress
… In chapter 3, a self-reflexive version of anthropocentrism is developed as the most appropriate moral basis for green politics. Some naturalistic arguments are presented in order to support 'speciesism', and defend it from claims of arbitrariness and as being akin to sexism or racism. …
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An Exploration of Nature and Human Development in Young Adult Historical Fantasy
… as a means of resisting historical writing’s anthropocentrism. Historical fantasy uses fantastical elements to create counterfactual and alternative historical realities that have the potential to resist and undermine history’s anthropocentric norm. My thesis examines four contemporary young …
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We Can Come Back From This: Navigating the Perils of the Anthropocene in The Walking Dead
… a platform upon which to assay a humanity post-anthropocentrism; the utopian energies (possibilities for improvement, positive potential) wrought from this study provide potentially powerful and actual physical material effects (actions that are cataloged and verifiable) in consumers of The …
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Gazing at Other Animals: A Deconstruction of the Anthropocentric Gaze in the Representation of Apex Predators
… predator representations within the context of anthropocentrism, a perspective that places the human at the centre of experience and knowledge. Anthropocentrism is a concept integrally linked to the human gaze, a mode of viewing that produces an anthropocentric perception of non-human animals. …
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Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism
… nature that moved away from hierarchical anthropocentrism toward what I call “posthuman ecology.” This work explores shared scientific, literary, and philosophical sources for Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Mary and Percy Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson. I connect aesthetic …
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Subversive Intimacies: Resisting Settler Colonialism's Shallow Attachments
… relationality and asociality, solidarity, anthropocentrism and the anthropocene, intimacy, embodiment, and place.
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Otherwise than human: responsibility in the wake of disaster, an eco-deconstructive response to climate catastrophe
… Time and Totality and Infinity, and bring the anthropocentrism at the heart of his philosophy to bear the weight of responsibility we owe to, not just our human neighbors but, more significantly, to our nonhuman neighbors at a time when those nonhuman others can no longer go unrecognized.
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Performing the Wound in Animal Rights: Probing Performative Trauma Approaches and Processes within Animal Rights Activism in the UK
… as a transformative tool for challenging anthropocentrism and fostering interspecies empathy, the thesis contributes to performance studies by demonstrating its capacity to address urgent ethical issues in the UK animal rights movement.
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Tendências de consideração moral e ensino de ciências: veiculação e perspectivas em uma sala de aula no município de Ouriçangas-Ba
… sequenced into individualism, selective anthropocentrism, anthropocentrism, sentiocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism and socio-ecocentrism. In science classrooms, the approach to these categories includes the attitudinal dimension of the content and can be included in teaching processes, …
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Chinese eco-films and their pastoral myth
… the conflicts between garden and machine, anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, and Tityrus and Meliboeus in American pastoralism, then explains why such simplification does not work on Chinese screen, and finally studies how Chinese filmmakers reconstruct their pastoral myth in three major …
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Ekonomistické paradigma a jeho vliv na životní prostředí
… It will present an interpretation of biblical anthropocentrism and other concepts of the approach to the environment, which puts different subjects at the forefront of their interest. The aim of the work is to evaluate the sustainability of the currently set functioning of the world in relation …
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Human and nature at conflict: a case study of Mauritius flying fox, Pteropus niger
… thinking, political ecology, ecocentrism versus anthropocentrism, storytelling to create new ecological narratives and urban ecology are used to frame the discussion of this case study.
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Verso una nuova postura poetica: rinascere a ogni istante
… research focused on the theme of overcoming anthropocentrism in modern Western culture through a philosophical-anthropological approach. This research was carried out in three main stages: • An in-depth study and comparison of the views of several contemporary anthropologists associated with …
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