Driving Force or Justification: Anthropocentrism and Ecological Crisis

Wang Ruixiong; Yan Geng

doi:10.13931/j.cnki.bjfuss.2022238

Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Science) > 2023 > 22(3): 22-27. > DOI: 10.13931/j.cnki.bjfuss.2022238

Wang Ruixiong, Yan Geng. Driving Force or Justification: Anthropocentrism and Ecological Crisis[J]. Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Science), 2023, 22(3): 22-27. DOI: 10.13931/j.cnki.bjfuss.2022238

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Driving Force or Justification: Anthropocentrism and Ecological Crisis

Wang Ruixiong,
Yan Geng^,

School of Marxism, Beijing Forestry University, 100083, P. R. China

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Received Date: November 19, 2022
Accepted Date: April 23, 2023
Available Online: April 24, 2023
Published Date: September 24, 2023

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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.
- anthropocentrism,
- ecological crisis,
- capitalism,
- driving force,
- justification

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