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Line 1: {{Green politics sidebar \|Related}} '''Ecocentrism''' ({{IPAc-en\|ˌ\|ɛ\|k\|oʊ\|ˈ\|s\|ɛ\|n\|t\|r\|ɪ\|z\|əm}}; from Greek: οἶκος ''oikos'', "house" and κέντρον ''kentron'', "center") is a term used in [[ecological]] [[political philosophy]] to denote a nature-centered, as opposed to human-centered (i.e. [[anthropocentric]]), system of values. The justification for ~~mohamed~~ ecocentrism usually consists in an [[ontology\|ontological belief]] and subsequent [[ethical]] claim. The ontological belief denies that there are any [[Existentialism\|existential]] divisions between human and non-human nature sufficient to claim that humans are either (a) the sole bearers of [[Intrinsic value (ethics)\|intrinsic value]] or (b) possess greater intrinsic value than non-human nature. Thus the subsequent ethical claim is for an equality of intrinsic value across human and non-human nature, or '[[biosphere\|biospherical]] [[egalitarianism]]'.<ref>[http://www.answers.com/topic/ecocentrism Answers.com]. Retrieved 13 June 2009.</ref> According to Stan Rowe:<ref>[http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/aboutauthors.html#rowe Stan Rowe, biographic profile.]</ref> {{Cquote\|''The ecocentric argument is grounded in the belief that, compared to the undoubted importance of the human part, the whole [[Earth's spheres\|ecosphere]] is even more significant and consequential: more inclusive, more complex, more integrated, more creative, more beautiful, more mysterious, and older than time. The "environment" that [[anthropocentrism]] misperceives as materials designed to be used exclusively by humans, to serve the needs of humanity, is in the profoundest sense humanity's source and support: its ingenious, inventive life-giving matrix. Ecocentrism goes beyond [[biocentrism (ethics)\|biocentrism]] with its fixation on organisms, for in the ecocentric view people are inseparable from the inorganic/organic nature that encapsulates them. They are particles and waves, body and spirit, in the context of Earth's ambient energy.''<ref>Rowe, Stan J. (1994).[http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/RoweEcocentrism.html "Ecocentrism: the Chord that Harmonizes Humans and Earth."] ''The Trumpeter'' '''11(2)''': 106-107.</ref>}}

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