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THE ILLUSORY TRUTH
Multigenre Philosophy
Copyright © 2012 John O'Loughlin
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CONTENTS
1. The Philosopher as Man, Not Machine
2. Two Types of Thinker
3. Thinking Should Be Difficult
4. A Justification of Boredom
5. Ultimate Justice
6. No Escaping Evil
7. The Way it Has To Be
8. No Hope without Fear
9. Twenty Mistaken Ideas
10. Slightly Existential
11. Words as Our 'Reality'
12. Partly Our Creation
13. Truths but No Truth
14. Reality and Realities
15. Human Diversity
16. No Two Alike
17. Time Belongs to Man
18. Inevitably Unreasonable
19. Puppets of Life
20. The Negative Root
21. The Struggle for Happiness
22. Work and Play
23. No Freedom without Bondage
24. From Winter to Autumn
25. No 'Mother Nature'
26. Male and Female Pride
27. Against Folly
28. Suspended Judgement
29. Against Reincarnation
30. Superstition Universal
31. The End of the World
32. Art as Ideality
33. Great Art
34. No Health without Disease
35. Illness No Objection
36. The 'Plimsoll Line' of Sleep
37. A Wider View of Vice
38. Misused Concepts
39. Against Racial Inequality
40. The Transience of Death
41. Philosophy verses Insular Intolerance
42. Individual Wisdom
43. The Meaning and Purpose of Life
44. The Inferior Negative
45. Four Categories
46. Negatives Serve
47. Successful Failures
48. Positively Selfish
49. A Posthumous B.C.
50. Schismatic Christianity
51. Live Symbols
52. Interplanetary Equilibrium
53. Magnetic Reciprocities
54. Universe or Universes
55. Between Good and Evil
PART TWO: ESSAYISTIC APHORISMS
PART THREE: APHORISMS (MAXIMS)
