Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:12:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NelsonC_DISSERT.pdf: 3414305 bytes, checksum: a4b4a76f72715b4b6ad26c138e547946 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-30 / Many environmental ethics thinkers bear the existing ecological crisis is resultig from the fact that both, our thoughts and our actions would be antropocentric. It means that they (our thoughts and our actions) would have the human needs and wishes satisfaction as their only goals. However, a careful investigation about the relationship among humans could perhaps unveil that we are not antropocentric yet. The aim of this work is to enlighten this: whether we think and act in an antropocentric way as it seems to be largely accepted. It seems that we have found a satisfatory answer to the question / Grande parte dos pensadores da ?tica ambiental credita a crise ecol?gica da atualidade ao fato de que tanto o pensamento quanto as a??es dos seres humanos seriam antropoc?ntricos, ou seja, teriam como objetivo ?nico a satisfa??o de necessidades e desejos dos pr?prios homens. No entanto, uma cuidadosa investiga??o sobre a rela??o que os humanos mant?m entre si poderia revelar que talvez n?o sejamos verdadeiramente nem sequer antropoc?ntricos. O objetivo deste trabalho ? tentar trazer ? luz mais conhecimentos sobre isto: se de fato pensamos e agimos de forma antropoc?ntrica, como ? amplamente aceito. E parece que conseguimos nos aproximar de uma resposta satisfat?ria para a quest?o