Insights on William Golding enlighten the readers with his setting, the
setting that the novels are all the more constructed. The construction
(premise), having nature as the backdrop, brings the essence of oikology
(landscape ecology). Cosmotheandric principle is not about anthropos
(justifying man’s stand) or ecology. Deviating from the usual path of
ecocriticism, Cosmotheandric principle locates human beings amongst other
organisms and supports the unifying process of making cosmos, organisms and the
Spiritual united. This Unifying process is an exalted process (procedure),
which Panikkar describes to be the most difficult of all in the Open Horizon.
According to Panikkar, Open Horizon (The biggest perspective) is a place where
many horizons meet together to form a bigger horizon and the lofty position
that the mind is encompassed to create the unifying process. The novels of
Golding, have an Oikological set up, where the characters seems to have lost
the biggest perspective (Open Horizon) and try to boast the unrighteousness
(Anthropos perspective), i.e. justifying the act for survival of the human
species. The characters in the novels exploit and deplete the natural
environment and in turn exploit themselves in the process of asserting their
stand (Anthropos principle). This paper deals with the exalted Open Horizon
concept and the unifying Process under Cosmotheandric perspective that the
characters seem to have lost in trying to assert their Anthropos principle and
the wild attitude of human beings towards nature and vice versa due to the lack
of the exalted unifying\\\\ process. Key Words—Cosmotheandric Perspective, Open
Horizon, Unifying Process, Oikology, Ecumenic consciousness, historical
consciousness, anthropos, macanthropos. - See more at:
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