biocentric
Prioritizing all organisms
Biocentric describes a worldview that places all living things—not just humans—at the center of moral consideration.
Where anthropocentric thinking privileges human interests, biocentric ethics holds that plants, animals, and ecosystems have inherent value independent of their usefulness to people: a biocentric approach to environmental policy.
The term appears most often in conservation and environmental philosophy.
Profound admiring respect
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- respectRegard with honor
- dignityInnate personal worth
flourishing · welfare · compassion · stewardship · egalitarianism · holism · morality · harmony
Interdependent organism-environment systems
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- biosphereAll life on Earth
- interdependenceReciprocal reliance between entities
- symbiosisInterspecies biological interdependence
niches · biomes · habitats · bioindicators · wilderness · restoration
Maintaining something's condition
- reforestationReplanting depleted woodlands
- rewildingRestoring natural ecosystems
Comprehensive belief framework
- interconnectednessState of mutual linkage
- animismSpirits inhabit all things
- vitalismNon-physical life principle
- organicismUnified living systems theory
reverence
Profound admiring respect
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- respectRegard with honor
dignity · flourishing · welfare · compassion · stewardship · egalitarianism · holism · morality · harmony · speciesism
ecosystems
Interdependent organism-environment systems
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- biosphereAll life on Earth
- interdependenceReciprocal reliance between entities
symbiosis · niches · biomes · habitats · bioindicators · wilderness · restoration
preservation
Maintaining something's condition
- reforestationReplanting depleted woodlands
- rewildingRestoring natural ecosystems
worldview
Comprehensive belief framework
- interconnectednessState of mutual linkage
- animismSpirits inhabit all things
- vitalismNon-physical life principle
biocentricanthropocentric
Regarding humanity as paramount
human-centered · homocentric · technocentric · egocentric · ecocentric