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Maimonides, a scholar of the Torah who lived in the 12th century AD, was noted for being decidedly anti-anthropocentric, calling man "a mere 'drop of the bucket" and "not 'the axle of the world'". He also claimed that anthropocentric thinking is what causes humans to think that evil things exist in nature. Maimonides thus deflated man's extravagant notions of his own importance and urged us to abandon these illusions.

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