Anthropocentric positions take into account the morally relevant interests of people,
who may include future generations.
An important Anthropocentric position is natural aesthetics,
which attaches great importance to human interest in the aesthetic value of nature.
In contrast, some conservation biologists argue that nature
has an intrinsic value that is independent of Anthropocentric usefulness or utilitarianism.
This Anthropocentric perspective of Descartes' work,
establishing human reason as autonomous, provided the basis for the Enlightenment‘s emancipation from God and the Church.
The poet thus becomes a spokesman for the environmental emergency and establishes a new and equal
relationship with Nature, passing from the Anthropocentric perspective to the biocentric one.
Transdisciplinarity in the search for wisdom to lead humanity to a harmonious coexistence with and in the biosphere, and
towards the maximum possible rehabilitation of ecological relationships damaged by Anthropocentric models of human development.
Some people don't want to acknowledge the possibility of self-awareness in animals because if they do, the borders between humans and other animals become blurred and their narrow,
hierarchical, Anthropocentric view of the world would be toppled.