Welcome to the SUPERNOTATIONAL (loosely aphoristic) PHILOSOPHY of the
CRITIQUE OF POST-DIALECTICAL IDEALISM
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Hyperlinks to the files of
which follow the remarks below:–
Although not a
critique in the strictly analytical sense, this 1989–91 work is nonetheless
sufficiently methodical and wide-ranging in its comprehensive treatment of a
variety of interrelated subjects as to warrant serious consideration as a
vehicle for the advancement, on a Social Transcendentalist basis, of
post-dialectical idealism (truth) in a world too long torn between the
conflicting claims of realism and materialism.Of especial significance here are the T-like diagrammatic structures
which enabled me to flesh-out, in fairly comprehensive vein, the various
components of any given subject and to analyse it in relation to my overriding
idealistic bias.Subjects tackled
include, curiously enough, a theory of the connections between a given mode of
attire and the most appropriate approach to sexual intercourse in relation to
it, as well as an investigation, more seriously, of the relationships between
'naturalistic' and artificial products or technologies at both 'head' and
'bodily' levels. – John O'Loughlin.
John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split partly due to his mother's Aldershot origins (her father, a Presbyterian from Donegal, had served in the British Army),
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who upon the premature death of her Aldershot-based husband had initially returned to Ireland after a lengthy marital absence from Athenry) in the mid-50s and, having had the benefit of private tuition from a Catholic priest, subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St. George's schools in
Aldershot, Hants, and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been sent to a children's home
by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his grandmother, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys. Upon leaving the latter in 1970 with an
assortment of CSEs
(Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs
(General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved to London and went on, via two short-lived
jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford
Square WC1, where he eventually became responsible, as a clerical officer Gd.1, for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of personal factors, quit the ABRSM in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency within the YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview
Reviewed (1979), Secret
Exchanges (1980), Sublimated
Relations(1981), and Deceptive
Motives (1981). Since the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has dedicated himself almost exclusively to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has penned several titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and
God (1985–6), Towards
the Supernoumenon(1987), Elemental Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical Truth (1991–2) and,
more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
