Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Treating life as a central fact.

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  • adjective Supporting or pertaining to biocentrism.

Etymologies

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bio- + -centric

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Examples

  • Whatever debate there is veers between two strands of this Malthusian Weltanschauung: the utilitarian (a.k.a. anthropocentric, shallow, or technocentric) and the ethical (alternatively termed biocentric, deep, or ecocentric).

    The Ecology of Environmentalism 2006

  • "Ecofascism: An Enduring Temptation," Michael Zimmerman identifies instances of such holism in the politics of noted European environmentalist Dr. Walter Schoenichen and in American environmentalist J. Baird Collicott's early approval of deep ecology's "biocentric" philosophy.

    Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature 2007

  • But beyond the arguably effective role that the notion of a "world without tigers" may play in fundraising for conservation campaigns, does this persistent message of loss actually engage the public beyond the minority of "biocentric" people for whom biodiversity has intrinsic value?

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • (11 / 10 / 2008) A new online magazine will take a "biocentric" perspective to the planet's environmental problems.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • (11 / 10 / 2008) A new online magazine will take a "biocentric" perspective to the planet's environmental problems.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • Influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation, his ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the left wing of the environmental movement, with his biocentric or holistic ethics regarding land.

    Utah Lawmaker: Just Vote No to Wolves 2010

  • Bookchin was a social ecologist whose watershed came in the 1980s when the biocentric wing of the radical environmental movement was welcoming AIDs and famine as a means to curtailing population, this attracted a fair few xenophobes into the environmental movement who hijacked the population question.

    UKIP playing the race card in Norwich North ? Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • Experiments confirm it's built into the fabric of reality, but it only makes sense from a biocentric perspective.

    Five Reasons You Won't Die M.D. Robert Lanza 2011

  • Influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation, his ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the left wing of the environmental movement, with his biocentric or holistic ethics regarding land.

    Utah Lawmaker: Just Vote No to Wolves 2010

  • The biocentric view of the timeless, spaceless world allows for no true death in any real sense.

    Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why You're Alive and Can Never Die: The Larger Scientific Picture 2010

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