Synopsis
I offer “Diary of Atonement: The case for good and evil” as a work on identity, a work which challenges the mind to think for itself. Its target reader is (s)he who finds traditional/conventional thinking wanting, and who hungrily seeks more. For me, to say of an identity that it is itself says not that an identity is a oneness (so tradition) but that it is two-faced—as a paradox. It means that an identity is an atonement, an at-oncement, as at once good and evil, necessarily so, and that identity as such is far, far, more than either of its faces. I invite you to find the book provocative, inviting your criticism, as a mind-challenging exercise in thinking for yourself. And why not?
About the Author
Bart Anthony Keegan, Ph.D., lives quietly in London pursuing his foremost interest: the philosophy of suffering. During his sojourns in England and Australia, he studied divinity and philosophy and began to question the meaning of life, the sense that theologians and philosophers made of it. This interest gradually focused on how to think about anything at all and the logic that is used as the tool of thinking. Bart met up with Anselm's proof for the existence of God and this changed entirely the direction of his interest. In that moment, he began to question if the way we think is in need of radical change from the root: the axioms of thought themselves. "The Diary of Atonement", "Poems & Prose of Atonement", and "Identity as Paradox" are the fruit of Bart's questioning: They offer up as their thesis that each identity-person or thing-in the story of the world is an atonement of opposites: a paradox, from which, Bart came to understand that suffering, as sorrow, together with its opposite such as glory qua that which is glorious are cases as paradoxically one another, where their paradox case as their common identity case is neither one of them but both of them at once, and this (borrowing from Anselm) as that than which nothing greater can be conceived-identity-as-paradox as, so to call it, creativity as such. Each identity in the story of the world is a creativity, presenting either wholly negatively, wholly positively, or by turns each of these opposites. By which, that which is called the problem of evil-here called the problem of suffering-is accounted for as warranted by the justice of creativity as such, the fruits of which thereby are the cases of good and evil, glory and suffering, rejoicing and sorrow-the head-and-tail faces, so to speak, of the coin of untold measure that is identity as paradox. Bart invites discussion regarding his work: trabkeegan@talktalk.net
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