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• n  an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values

• Of course, this anthropocentrism runs against the grain of a contemporary environmentalism that indulges in earth worship to the point of idolatry.

• anthropocentricity

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• Paul Davies in Daily News & Analysis
  As Davies writes, "speculation about SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is bedevilled by the trap of anthropocentrism - a tendency to use 21st-century human civilisation as a model for what an extraterrestrial civilization would be...