After the geocentric illusion had been destroyed, the anthropocentric illusion still remained.
Among the things it hadn't attained to was the easy anthropocentric attitude that is part of our civilisation.
Of course, so long as the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions dominate, it is natural that the lore of stability should impress itself upon science and life.
The anthropocentric illusion rebelled against the word of Darwin, accusing him of lowering the human life to the level of the dirt or of the brute.
While the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions have been dispelled, the illusion of the immobility and eternity of classes still persists.
Let us, purely for convenience, indiscriminately lump together all such values within the category of 'anthropocentric values'.
This does seem to be a somewhat anthropocentric viewpoint and one, moreover, that effectively replaces the old culture/nature dualism with a human/non-human dualism.
They would seem to be judging their study species according to the anthropocentric standards that they reject.
