Anthropocentrism frames nature as dead and manipulable, outside ethical responsibility

Evidence

Anthropocentrism: Non-human beings are defined as constituting a lower order of life and radically excluded from humans based on a lack of “reason.” Exclusion and inferiorization stresses those features which make them different from humans. Nature is conceived of in mechanical terms as “dead” and manipulable, thus outside the ethical responsibilities of men. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 591

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise, teachable definition of anthropocentrism in terms of radical exclusion and mechanism that a classroom unit can deploy directly.
• ADDENDUM: The mechanistic view of nature as ‘dead’ here echoes the root-metaphor work that grounds the reader’s trees-as-infrastructure article’s critique of resource framing.
• XREF: connects to: A logic of domination justifies ruling nature via culture-nature hierarchy. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 511; Anthropocentric homogenization denies individual beings’ integrity and moral standing — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 595; The philosophical-scientific worldview blocks environmental ethics from valuing insentient nature (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Anthropocentric homogenization denies individual beings’ integrity and moral standing #corroborates (0.85) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 595
• The philosophical-scientific worldview blocks environmental ethics from valuing insentient nature #corroborates (0.82)
• Mechanism stripped away the organic view’s ethical restraints on nature exploitation #expands (0.80) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 480
• Animist vitalism functioned as an ethic restraining exploitation of nature #corroborates (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 158
• Vitalism’s monistic worldview inherently restrains the exploitation of nature #corroborates (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 933