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Ciò che
indichiamo con la parola "amore" è la forza originaria
che si esprime nella gamma infinita di condizioni e modalità in
cui si pone l'essere, ovvero la "presenza" (ousiva). All' estremo
iniziale troviamo la pura violenza del dominio e della distruzione, la
presenza che afferra se stessa ciecamente, perché è dominata
e soffocata dalla brama di sé. In questa condizione essa è
eccesso che divora se stesso. L'apparire della giustizia è effetto
del dolore, che a sua volta è figlio dell'eccesso. L'eccesso è
violenza che la presenza fa a se stessa, comporta dolore; la giustizia
è la misura della rinuncia che la presenza impone a se stessa,
comporta dolore. Ma c'è una differenza: la giustizia è dolore
che si fa avanti per primo, che non si nasconde, mentre l'eccesso mente,
è dolore che si tiene nascosto alle spalle del sé che la
presenza afferra bramandosi. L'eccesso è un inganno che manifesta
alla fine il suo prezzo di dolore. La giustizia dice inizialmente quello
che è: misura che procura dolore.
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What
we call love is the primary force which express itself in the infinite range
of conditions and modalities in which we place the being, or the "presenza"
(ousiva). At the first extreme we find the pure violence of dominion and destruction,
the "presenza" which blindly grabs itself because is ruled and suffocated
by the self longing. In this condition it is excess which devours itself. When
justice becomes visible it's because of pain and pain is son of excess. Excess
is violence caused by the action of presence toward itself and it involves pain.
Justice is the way in which the presence renounces to itself and it involves
pain. But there is a difference: justice is pain which steps forward at first,
which doesn't hide while excess lies and it's a hidden pain behind the self
grabbed by longing presence. Excess is a trick which manifests the cost of pain
at the end. Justice says from the beginning what it really is: measure which
causes pain. Justice, son of pain, with the spur of pain establishes the distance from itself (measure) which presence has to maintain, so that it can relate to itself without destruction. From justice presence learns measure and thus it becomes fight against allurement and self longing of excess: voluntary and initial pain which unmasks the excess, avoiding of being treacherously overwhelmed by the final pain. Excess, which presents itself as immediateness of satisfaction, make the sting of hidden pain become suddenly visible. Justice, instead, offers a free space, a true openness behind the pain that initially presents. The presence within justice remains at a fair distance from itself, being itself, in equity. But equity has to be asserted step by step because each moment has its own excess and it is not possible to extirpate it from the presence once for all. That's where everything ends: the presence keeps re-proposing the excess and justice redresses it without getting tired. Justice grows up upon experience of final pain caused by excess and it grows as truth of the initial pain. Thus, love is an eternal circle which opens and closes into itself in equity. A wound and a repair: mystical exaltation. The presence is thus kept at its own level but it is not the same, being presence, compared to non-presence. On the contrary the more the presence is fair with itself, the more it lets the unfairness appears; the unfairness of the presence with respect to non-presence. Excess is now the presence itself. Such excess can't be eliminated with a removal or a limitation. Here we can't remove anymore. Now it's the justice itself (or self-equality of presence) which imperiously asks for something which can exceed itself. Bringing near to injustice the presence of another injustice, a gratuitous excess, a crime, an open and initial "decision", we equalise injustice which presence is. This excess which is a counter attraction and a reward for the presence itself, it represents love in its most complete sense. It is a crime which, violating justice, completely obeys to it and it arrogantly occupies the free space opened by justice and set up in the match and "the other side of the coin". The destructive craving which flows from the presence was turned towards itself and has now changed its direction towards the openness created by justice. It has become the increase, the double and the maid of presence with which it goes on in absolute loneliness.
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