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	AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Biocentric philosophy is understandably a reaction to to anthropocentrism and is often described as it's antonym.
		Biocentrism has been forwarded as a new way for humans to behave, being grounded in nature.
		Biocentric philosophers insist we must live in a way that respects the natural world, yet AR ideology insists that we separate ourselves from nature...
	www.animalrights.net /86154 (570 words)

	Revolutionary Ecology : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Deep ecology, or biocentrism, is the belief that nature does not exist to serve humans.
		Biocentrism is a law of nature, that exists independently of whether humans recognize it or not.
		And so, to embrace biocentrism or deep ecology, is to challenge the masculine system of knowledge that underlies the destruction of the earth, and that underlies the justification for the way our society is structured.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=129591 (4202 words)

	Biocentrism: Ideology Against Nature (Do or Die)
		But Biocentrism has already been defined by its practitioners to be the opposite of Anthropocentrism.
		If Anthropocentrism is human-centred living and this is the opposite of Biocentrism, or nature-centred living, then once again, 'human' and 'nature' are opposite and therefore separate.
		Both Biocentrism (life/nature/earth-centred) and Anthropocentrism (human-centrism) mean the same thing, yet one is defined as being opposed to the other.
	www.eco-action.org /dod/no8/biocentrism.html (2614 words)

	Glossary
		The term biocentrism is sometimes used to indicate views in which focus and value are placed on living organisms (animals and perhaps plants), while ecocentric views tend to include abiotic factors such as rivers and systems that include abiotic elements, such as ecosystems and watersheds.
		Biocentric thinkers often emphasize the value of individual organisms, while ecocentric thinkers tend to be characterized by a more holistic approach, giving value to species, ecosystems, or the earth as a whole.
		One biocentric philosopher, Thomas Regan, argues that only individual organisms have intrinsic value; species or ecosystems have no value in themselves.
	www.uwosh.edu /faculty_staff/barnhill/ES_243/glossary.html (3616 words)

	SUSTAINABILITY AND THE VALUE OF ANCIENT FOREST LANDSCAPES
		Biocentrism can be thought of in neo-Kantian terms as a philosophy that places "environmental objects beyond the reach of cost-benefit analysis".
		That biocentrism is too unconventional to be accepted as the foundation for national conservation strategies should be fairly obvious.
		All in all, Norton (1987:182) concludes, however provocative biocentrism may be as an ethic, it will remain unsuccessful in shaping environmental policy until it can be "developed, clarified, and justified in a clear and explicit manner".
	www.ancientforest.org /rr5.html (14567 words)

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		In philosophical aspect, naturocentrism may be considered as the practical application to architecture of aesthetic aspect of philosophy of biocentrism.
		The biocentrism is roughly developing current of modern philosophical think, integrating achievements of natural sciences and the negative experience of the mankind which have been saved up during its history in general, and history of an industrial society in particular.
		The biocentrism was born as an anthogonist of traditional philosophy of anthropocentrism, three thousand years existing and working during last, approximately, - i.e.
	www.gardenforlife.ru /eng/8_8.html (2446 words)

	The Left and Environmental-First Nations Relationships
		Theoretical tendencies such as social ecology, ecological Marxism and ecofeminism, while raising important questions, are not biocentric, and remain human-centered in their fundamental orientations.
		New biocentric and anti-capitalist cultures are needed, grounded in respect for the Earth and social justice.
		Biocentric environmentalists who are for social justice, whether non-natives or natives, must openly stand against further development in Canada.
	cnie.org /NAE/docs/deep.html (5370 words)

	Left Biocentrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While raising a number of criticisms, left biocentrism is meant to strengthen, not undermine, the deep ecology movement which identifies with all life.
		Left biocentrism is for the redistribution of wealth, nationally and internationally.
		Left biocentrism believes that an egalitarian, non-sexist, non-discriminating society, a highly desirable goal, can still be exploitive towards the Earth.
	www.ic.org /pnp/biocentrism.html (508 words)

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		This paper is the first comprehensive, though brief review (1-24) of the focal points (8) of the concept of Theoretical biology (TB) developed by the author since 1972 at TB seminars in Leningrad University.
		The inevitable expansion of biocentrism in this case (20, 22-24) is balanced off by the pressure of other pictures of the universe.
		Biomorphic TB is possible (7) in a biocentric culture necessary to overcome the ecological crisis (cf.
	www.ento.vt.edu /~sharov/biosem/chebanov/tb.html (2615 words)

	Is Left Biocentrism Relevant to Green Parties? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Left Biocentrism opposes more economic growth and, following Rudolf Bahro, popularizes that industrialized nations need to reduce their impact upon the Earth to one tenth of what it presently is, for long-term sustainability.
		Left biocentrism holds that individual and collective spiritual/psychological transformation is important to bring about major social change and to break with industrial society.
		The fundamental left biocentric critique of ecofeminism, which has a number of faces, is its human, female gender exclusiveness, and hence its splitting character for a general philosophical theory.
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v16.1/orton.html (5312 words)

	The Wild Path Forward
		The relationship of the left biocentric tendency to traditional native thinking is also in the process of being defined.
		To take positions on the hundreds of outstanding specific land claims in Canada, biocentric non-native environmentalists need to look at First Nations' fundamental values and assumptions, asking, for instance, "can treaty rights and land claims be supported?" and also at their own values and assumptions.
		The other path, less well developed, and in the left biocentric camp, states that a "sustainable forestry requires a sustainable society." It calls for, and is working toward, the dismantling of existing industrial society as part of a deep ecology forestry strategy.
	ncseonline.org /nae/docs/wild.html (3634 words)

	ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND BIOCENTRISM: THE ANALYSIS OF PHILOSOPHIC APPROACHES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The second position at last turns the biocentrism into anthropocentrism because the protection of non-human world can not be done any other way than in the framework of human valuation.
		Somehow or other, biocentrism should be directed to the living world of human behavior where nature is full of meaning and values.
		"The ethics of relations with the environment would flourish in the gardens of social practices and the biocentric attitude to the environment is the last reserve of the revolution energy in the technological heritage", - this is the approximate formula of the manifest of the practical biocentrism that is the core of the "Deep Ecology".
	www.ln.com.ua /~kekz/english/sum/3s-5.htm (538 words)

	Terrorism, War, Death, and Destruction
		The link is biocentrism and the horrible mutations (of biocentrism) that emerge when this awful concept is politicized.
		However, since biocentrism is inherently warped, it should not be surprising that Hitler was a vegetarian; which reflected his reverence for "helpless" animals above all non-Aryan human beings.
		Just as Bill Devall used biocentrism as a political "sledgehammer" to save the wilderness (whatever that may be), Soviet leaders used a form of biocentrism to achieve the political goal of exterminating the bourgeoisie.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/englund3.html (8018 words)

	Biocentrism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another thread of biocentricity comes from ethnological studies of species-specific taboos.
		Note: "Biocentrism" has also recently gained prominence in the discussion of transgender and transsexual rights.
		It is this biocentric belief that continues to fuel the debate over the Michigan Women's Music Festival's policy to only allow women-born, women-identified women.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biocentrism (354 words)

	texts- revolutionary ecology
		Biocentrism is not a new theory, and it wasn't invented by Dave Foreman or Arne Naess.
		This ecofeminist view of nature is perfectly consistent with biocentrism.
		So to embrace biocentrism is to challenge the masculine system of knowledge that underlies the destruction of the Earth.
	www.thrall.orcon.net.nz /textsrevecology.html (2843 words)

	Lowbagger -- Revolutionary Ecology: A Working Title
		Deep ecology, or biocentrism, is the recognition that nature does not exist to serve humans.
		Biocentrism and ecocentrism are not new or modern concepts, and they certainly didn't originate in western academia.
		So, to embrace biocentrism or deep ecology is to challenge this "masculine" system of knowledge that underlies the destruction of the Earth as well as the classist, fascistic justifications for the way our current "society" is structured.
	lowbagger.org /revolutionaryecology.html (5771 words)

	[Ecopolitics] Socialist Biocentrism
		Left biocentrism has now emerged as a distinct theoretical tendency in environmental ethics discussions and in the actual movement, with a number of supporters and contributers who are endeavouring to unfold and examine what it means for deep ecology and for Greens, both inside and outside of Green Parties.
		A commentary "Socialist Biocentrism: What Is It,", in the CNS Newsletter Eight (September/October, 1989), mentioned that this conceptual perspective was introduced by Helga Hoffmann and myself in a paper "Green Marginality In Canada" given at the Learned Societies Conference, Laval University, in June, 1989.
		One consciously interacts with a network of individuals who share a biocentric position, and who are concerned with theoretical questions, on a provincial, national and international basis.
	www.lists.opn.org /pipermail/org.opn.lists.ecopolitics/2004-June/000049.html (2751 words)

	"The Population Myth: Part II"
		"Biocentricity" has provided a new wrinkle; the biocentric notion that human beings are "intrinsically" no different in "worth" from other animals lends a helping hand to Malthusianism.
		Whether biocentrism's mystical equation of the worth of humans and lemmings will pave the way to a future Auschwitz has yet to be seen.
		A second conclusion that emerges from biocentric mysticism is an attempt to deprecate human intervention into nature as such.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/gp/perspectives15.html (4391 words)

	A-list message, [CrashList] re: Anthropocentrism vs Biocentrism
		This is so, Bowes says, despite the fact that human society may have been biocentric for long periods.
		First, there is a great deal of evidence that it is the specific features of the capitalist mode of production which produces the threat of ecological crash.
		Re: [CrashList] re: Anthropocentrism vs Biocentrism, Embarkadero Sun 08 Oct 2000, 15:57 GMT
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/a-list/2000/msg01485.htm (1598 words)

	20th WCP: Educational Literacy in the Context of Environmental Ethics
		The biocentric path within environmental ethics is a reaction to the traditional devaluation of nature as an instrumental domain.
		The logic of biocentrism calls for a hands-off strategy with respect to nature; humans should not insert themselves into the dynamic flow of ecosystems, because to do so is to change, domesticate, and humanize them.
		In order to institutionalize the moral values of a biocentric environmental ethics we would need to develop cognitive, emotive, and perceptual skills that would enable us to withdraw as much as possible from active interaction with the nonhuman world.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Envi/EnviKing.htm (3569 words)

	Socialist Biocentrism
		biocentrism, and the time is overdue for some of them to be discussed.
		One consciously interacts with a network of individuals who share a biocentric position, and who are concerned
		The term "ecocentrism" is now used instead of biocentrism by a number of supporters of deep ecology, e.g.,
	home.ca.inter.net /~greenweb/Socialist_Biocentrism.html (2163 words)

	Biocentrism and Genetic Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I consider the contribution that a biocentric perspective might make to the ethical debate concerning the practice of genetic engineering.
		I suggest that fundamentalist opposition to projects of genetic engineering is unhelpful, but that biocentric claims should now be a feature of ethical consideration.
		I conclude, though, that while environmental ethicists can contribute powerfully to debates concerning the future of genetic engineering, the ultimate direction it takes is likely to be beyond their control.
	www.erica.demon.co.uk /EV/EV412.html (133 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Economics and Environmentalism - Are they in conflict?
		It is on the claim that Nature has an intrinsic value (Biocentrism) that environmentalists and economists clash in principle.
		In adhering to Biocentrism, the environmental anti-economist declares that the state of human satisfaction to be a radically insufficient criterion of judgement of any social philosophy.
		Above all, by recognising no thing to be good or valuable unless it provides comfort and ease to humanity, economics has approved of the degradation of the natural environment.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000460.php (2422 words)

	[Ecopolitics] Book Proposal - Overview - 1
		A summary of left biocentrism, which continues to evolve, is given in the ten-point Left Biocentrism Primer, which was collectively agreed upon in 1998.
		Articles or book reviews in draft form, written from a left biocentric theoretical perspective, have normally been made available to other left bios in the discussion group for their critical commentary.
		As for "biocentrism", it is the more popular movement term, while "ecocentrism" is the more ecologically and scientifically aware term.
	www.lists.opn.org /pipermail/org.opn.lists.ecopolitics/2005-March/000253.html (973 words)

	Left Biocentrism Primer
		Left biocentrism is a left focus or theoretical tendency within the
		Left biocentrism accepts the view that the Earth belongs to no one.
		While raising a number of criticisms, left biocentrism is meant to
	home.ca.inter.net /~greenweb/lbprimer.htm (500 words)

	Untitled Document
		Not only are the people who are near the plants negatively affected, but the long-term effects of acid rain and global climate change hurt ecosystems that we depend on for our survival.
		Biocentrism would argue that our current energy use is unethical because it harms life around the globe.
		Outputs from coal plants cause toxic chemicals to accumulate in the bodies of plants and animals.
	www.stolaf.edu /orgs/ec/EthicsofEnergy.html (691 words)

	Perspectives of the Agriculture and Environment - Reading
		Biocentrism involves human action based on how it would effect other animals.
		The ethical paradigm that I find most important in guiding my thoughts toward the environment is that of biocentrism.
		I think that it is wrong to just do things and not care about other animals because sometimes our thoughtless actions can cause lots of harm to innocent animals and even cause them to become endangered.
	www.eden.rutgers.edu /~tcollow/perspectives/reading.html (1949 words)

	S Y N T H E S I S - On Truth and Actuality By Ludwig Klages, translated by J.D. Pryce
		It is, thus, "utilitarian," and this is the reason why the "truths" of the party of spirit have seduced a greater number of disciples than can ever be found in the party of life.
		We would be wise to remain attuned at all times to detect the return from obscurity of a species of thought that from time to time seems to resurface, although the revivals of this "science of the appearances" ("phenomenology"—in our own strict sense) have been for the most part short-lived and fragile.
		The biocentric version of phenomenology holds that the images themselves are the reality, and that there is no other vague entity lurking behind the images in order to substantiate their claims as realia—not atoms, not quanta, not ideas, not spirit, and not the laws of spirit.
	www.rosenoire.org /articles/biocentrism.php (13122 words)

	Biohermeneutics Seminar
		As a fruit of the analysis of the biomorphal means of knowledge representation, a whole conception of "biocentrism" was developed, involving cultural orientation to Life (as opposed to the orientation to the non-living, "physicalism", and to man, "anthropocentrism", predominant in European culture).
		One of the "preserve-islands" of biocentrism in culture, namely biological systematics, is often in the scope of discussions during the Seminar's sessions.
		When the phenomenon of Life is regarded more broadly, that is when the forms of life other than biological are taken into consideration, Life proves to be the basic notion for a more general conception: "vita-centrism".
	www.ento.vt.edu /~sharov/biosem/chebanov/seminar.htm (448 words)

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