Driving Force or Justification: Anthropocentrism and Ecological Crisis

Ecocentrism philosophers regard anthropocentrism as the root of ecological crisis, and interpret anthropocentrism as plundering nature based on human greed. However, a study of the history of modern western thought shows that anthropocentrism is based on human welfare, rather than human greed. Therefore, in the process of ecological crisis developing, anthropocentrism emerged not as an internal driving force, but as a modern ideology and a role in legitimizing capitalist social production. Taking anthropocentrism as the driving force of the ecological crisis obscures the driving role of the capitalist system. The development of anthropocentrism into ecological humanism is conducive to avoiding the understanding of anthropocentrism as desire centrism and conducting anti ecological application.