An anthropocentric perspective views humankind as the central and most important
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Question
An anthropocentric perspective views humankind as the central and most important entity in existence. It interprets the entirety of the natural world in terms of human values and experiences and thus tends to ignore or dismiss the perspectives and values of non-human life. Consequently, it esteems humans as superior to non-human creatures and places the welfare of humankind above that of all other beings. In what ways does H. G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds embrace or challenge anthropocentrism?
In Wells' novel are humans the center of the universe?Are humans the summit of evolutionary progress?According to Wells, what features are likely to be favored in human evolution of the future?Is there a correspondence between biological evolution and moral progress?Is human dominion over earth guaranteed?What does the novel present as the dangers of an anthropocentric perspective? Produce an argument responding to one or more of the above questions, providing textual support in the form of quotation from the novel with parenthetical citation (page or electronic location number).
Evolution is the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form; more specifically, it is the process by which different species are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.Interest in evolution arose during the Enlightenment (beginning in the 17th century) with the birth of scientific observation and increasing interest in natural history, the study of plants and animals in their natural environment.Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution by natural selection in the book On the Origin of Species in 1859.In his work, Darwin showed that species evolve over time because individuals that are well adapted to their environment pass on their beneficial heritable traits to their offspring.
Explanation / Answer
Wells is a master author who has always given a perspective over the vices of the human kind and the cons that the race pro creates from themselves.
He has always shown the way how man will be inadvertently responsible for the subjugation of the natural resources and nature itself as well as will be responsible for their own early demise.
Within the novel of war of the world's, Wells has attempted to, and a successfully, de mounted the human race from its high horse and places them at the ground level with an invasion from extra terrestrial beings. He tries to depict that superiority does not exist, and can be a relative term spreading far behind the universe.
He tries to show that humans, who feels they are the dominant race, cannot be the ones who ultimately are the ones who dimainate the universe, that they can be overthrown as a result of their ignorance.
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