Abstract
While earth has been a living place for human beings, ecology crisis results from the speeding of human civilisation with its sudden jumps on science and technology. This crisis has caused damages in climate changes, global warming, and nature destructions. In spite of the changes in human behaviour, ecological crisis is also caused by epistemological crisis. Mechanistic paradigm leads humans to classify nature based on their own preferences. At the same time, positioning humans over nature brings humans’ hegemony. This article offers Gregory Bateson’s epistemological ideas to understand the unity between human beings and nature. Systemic paradigm can be used to sense nature as oneness of system that leads to the concept of sacrality of the earth. The concept of a sacred earth brings forth a systemic paradigm that shows nature as united with humans. Understanding sacrality as an intrinsic value of nature is a good epistemological start to maintain the ecological sustainability.
Highlights
While earth has been a living place for human beings
ecological crisis is also caused by epistemological crisis
Mechanistic paradigm leads humans to classify nature based on their own preferences
Summary
Gregory Bateson lahir di Grantchester, Inggris, pada 9 Mei 1904 dan meninggal di San Francisco, Amerika Serikat, pada 4 Juli 1980 karena penyakit pneumonia. Karya dan pemikiran Bateson tidak hanya dibatasi pada Antropologi sebagai ilmu yang terakhir didalaminya. Tiga karya terakhir Bateson membuatnya banyak diperhatikan orang karena memahami ekologi dengan dua unsur utama, yakni akal budi dan sakralitas. Menurut Mary Catherine Bateson, kata steps dalam judul buku tersebut menunjukkan usaha para pembaca untuk mengenali karya Bateson sebagai cara berpikir.[3] Titik berat pembahasan dalam buku ini ialah memperkenalkan pemikiran Bateson tentang ekologi, bahwa seluruh sistem kehidupan atau alam dipahami sebagai proses akal budi atau proses mental yang saling berelasi.[4] Berkat pemikiran unik tersebut, Bateson mulai dikenal banyak orang. Pemikirannya tentang alam sebagai sebuah sistem yang saling terkait mempengaruhi beberapa orang, seperti Peter Harries-Jones, Fritjof Capra, Gilles Deleuze, dan Mary Catherine Bateson
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