Diremption & Salvation
Painting by Darwin Leon DIREMPTION & SALVATION BY DAVID ARTHUR WALTERS A ''diremption'' is a violent divorce or split, sometimes identified as a "fall" into self-consciousness, which presents an objective world in opposition to the willing subject, now conscious of itself as an independence restrained, therefore, at once, dependent for its existence on outside forces to which it must respond in one way or another to perpetuate its existence. Hence human self-consciousness is, in its radical division or the division at its root, is a moral division, a consciousness of good and evil that is not identical to the awareness of pleasure of pain that other animals experience - to humans, ''good'' might be painful, while ''evil'' might be pleasurable. In other words, the individual is separated from its mother and is born or falls into the world where it soon discovers it is not omnipotent, that it is opposed to an it or object or...