The End of Anthropocentrism?

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 36:103-112 (1994)
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Are human beings in some sense central to the cosmos? It used to seem obvious that they were. It seems less obvious now. But the idea is still powerful in our thinking, and it may be worth while asking just what it has meant

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Mary Midgley
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