Following on from The Ethnic Universality Quartet
(2002), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings
into one chronologically convenient volume 'The
Virtuous Circles', 'The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom',
'Apotheosis of the Gnosis', and 'Eschatology or
Scatology – Judgement at the Crossroads', all of which
are also independently available as free-standing titles
in both eBook and paperback formats. Brought
together, however, the continuity in John O'Loughlin's
philosophical development at around this time (2003)
becomes once again both more accessible and
intelligible, enabling one to follow the evolution of his
thought processes from book to book in what is one of a
number of such literary 'quartets' in which a loosely
aphoristic structure serves as the appropriate
methodology underlining his mainly metaphysical
approach to philosophy that is not, however, without
discursive interest of a political or social or even
ideological, not to mention scatological, nature. - A Centretruths Editorial