Crossword-Solution: ANTHROPOCENTRIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anthropocentric | a. | Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “ANTHROPOCENTRIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Regarding humans as all-important | 1 answer |
| Seeing man as focus of the universe | 1 answer |
| considering human beings as the most significant entity of the universe | 1 answer |
| earthborn | 6 answers |
| homo sapien | 8 answers |
| Ethnic | 15 answers |
| anthropoid | 31 answers |
| human being | 36 answers |
| tellurian | 44 answers |
| Human | 71 answers |
| Person | 72 answers |
| Individual | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ANTHROPOCENTRIC (5)
All religious views of life are anthropocentric.” “Religion is that activity of the human impulse towards self‐preservation by means of which Man seeks to carry his essential vital purposes through against the adverse pressure of the world by raising himself freely towards the world’s ordering and governing powers when the limits of his own strength are reached.” The whole book is little more than a development of these words.
Infinitely little as is the architect of the atoll in proportion to the earth on which it rests, the polyzoon, I doubt not, is much larger relatively than is man in proportion to the vast systems of the Universe, in which he represents an ultra-microscopic atom less ten thousand times than the tiniest of the "gay motes that people the sunbeams." Yet, with colossal audacity, this thinking atom regards himself as the anthropocentric pivot around which revolve the eternal purposes of the Universe.
But it received its chief support on the zoological side from Anton Dohrn, who maintained the anthropocentric ideas of Snell with particular ability.
This anthropocentric spirit has made him what he is—the ideal anti-sentimentalist and anti-vulgarian.
The mediaeval thinker, however freely he might exercise his powers of logical analysis in rationalizing the Christian Epic, never permitted himself to question its general anthropocentric and mystical view of the world.
Quotes with ANTHROPOCENTRIC (3)
Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit," "free will" -- "unfree will" for that matter), and purely imaginary effects ("sin," "salvation," "grace," "punishment," "forgiveness of sins"). Intercourse between imaginary beings ("God," "spirits," "souls"); an imaginary natural science (anthropocentric; a total denial of the concept of natural causes); an imaginary psyc…
Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.
In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science penetrates evermore deeply into the order of nature, the cosmos appears increasingly to be a vast system finely tuned to generate life and organisms of biology very similar, perhaps identical, to ourselves. All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition of traditional natural theology - that the cosmos is a spe…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).