biocentrism means an ethical viewpoint that extends inherent value to all non-human life, regardless of its sentience. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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BIOCENTRISM — [Noun] An ethical viewpoint extending inherent value to all living things, or a cosmological theory positing that life creates the universe. Formed within English by compounding the combining forms bio- (from Greek bios, “life”) and -centrism (from Greek kentron, “center”). Unlike anthropocentrism (which posits the cosmos as a backdrop for human drama) or ecocentrism (which dissolves the individual into the system, valuing a river stone as much as the fish within it), biocentrism draws its moral circle at the trembling membrane of the living cell. It is the breath of the humpback whale misting the Arctic air, the blind persistence of a root cracking a sidewalk, and the quiet sovereignty of the spider in the corner—a radical democracy of breath and pulse that places life itself at the heart of the cosmos.
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- An ethical viewpoint that extends inherent value to all non-human life, regardless of its sentience.
- A cosmological theory viewing life and biology as central to being, reality, and the cosmos such that life creates the universe rather than the other way around.