Spirituality in Human Being and Nature: Ecocriticism Has Yet to Comply

Abstract

Anthropocentrism has still been the dominant approach of human and nature relationship. It takes human being as the master and nature as created to fulfill their needs. Spirituality in human being and nature is beyond its speculation. However, there has emerged non-anthropocentrism known as ecocriticism, which views human being as a part of nature, not its master. It is similar to spiritualist claim of human and nature affinity, but it also does not admit any form of spirituality in human being and nature. The argument of this paper is to postulate the fact that spirituality is one of the fundamental elements of both human being and nature. If ecocriticism would adopt this, it would emerge as a complete alternative of anthropocentrism, whereby most problems of the world could be solved.