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PHILOSOPHICAL RUMINATIONS
ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS HAVING AXIAL IMPLICATIONS
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital
Media
Links to the files of which follow the
remarks below:–
Originally drawn from a variety of
blogsites, including joholin.blogspot.com,
these aphoristic essays complement the two volumes of Opus
Postscriptum and could almost be regarded as constituting Vol.3.
However, I decided to keep them separate in view of their final derivation
being from a different blog site, and some of the material may already have
been broached. Much of it, however, is fresh, and it achieves an
intensification of the definitiveness to which my works have laid claim for
some considerable period of time now. In fact, it would be difficult to
conceive of anything ever being more definitive as far as the holding together
of disparate material drawn from all points of the intercardinal axial compass
is concerned. Everything has its place, and can be known and judged
accordingly. – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
GROWING OLD WITH YOUNG MUSICIANS
DISTINGUISHING 'OLOGY' FROM 'OSOPHY'
IN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH
THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT BEING
DISTINGUISHING BEAUTY FROM TRUTH AND
TRUTH FROM BEAUTY
DISTINGUISHING CULTURE FROM CIVILITY
ON GENUINE AND PSEUDO AXIAL TERMS
EXAMINING THE SENSIBLE REJECTION OF
SENSUALITY FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ELITES
THE INSTINCTIVE IRRATIONAL
REDUCTIONISM OF POPULAR EXPLETIVES
FREEDOM
AND DETERMINISM
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION
AGAINST NATURE ON BOTH PHENOMENAL AND NOUMENAL TERMS
THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY
AND THE ELEMENTS
AN ANALYSIS OF THE BASIC MUSICAL
DIVISIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RELATION TO THE ELEMENTS
INCOMPATIBLE GENDER IDEALS
AN ANALYSIS OF THE
CHURCH-HEGEMONIC/STATE-SUBORDINATE SPORTS DICHOTOMY IN EIRE
A REVALUATION OF HOODS VIS-A-VIS UMBRELLAS
PROBABLE PARALLEL OF SINGERS AND HOODS
UTILIZING THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS TO A
REVOLUTIONARY THEOCRATIC END
WHY I AM NOT IN THE HUMANISTS' ECONOMIC POCKET
CONCERNING A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE
ADMINISTRATIVE FEW AND THE RELIGIOUSLY SOVEREIGN ONE
NEVER SIMPLY BLACK AND WHITE
A BRIEF EXAMINATION OF THE MORAL
DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN PLAY AND WORK
SYNTHETIC AND NON-SYNTHETIC ANTITHESES
FROM SUPERBARBARISM AND SUPERPHILISTINISM
TO SUPERCULTURE AND SUPERCIVILITY
METACHEMICAL AND METAPHYSICAL ANTITHESES
ANTIMETAPHYSICAL AND ANTIMETACHEMICAL ANTITHESES
CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL ANTITHESES
ANTIPHYSICAL AND ANTICHEMICAL ANTITHESES
THE ONE AND THE ANTI-NOT ONE
VICTORS
AND VICTIMS
All files Copyright © 2012 John O’Loughlin
Other websites by the author include:–
OPUS
POSTSCRIPTUM 1
OPUS
POSTSCRIPTUM 2
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
John
O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of 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 had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband 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 RC schools in Aldershot, Hants, and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care by his mother upon the death and repatriation of
his ethnically-conservative grandmother, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys in Sutton, where he
ultimately became a sixth-form prefect. Upon leaving high school in pre-GCSE
era 1970 with an assortment of CSEs (Certificate of Secondary Education) and
GCEs (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved up
to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, one of which was at Ivor
Mairants Music Centre on Rathbone Place, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music in Bedford Square, where, with some prior experience himself of having
sat and passed (with merit) an ABRSM Gd.4 piano exam, he eventually became
responsible for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland. After a brief flirtation with
English and History A'Levels at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he was
then living, he returned to his former job in the West End but, due to a
combination of personal factors, not the least of which had to do with the
depressing consequences of an enforced return to north London, left the
Associated Board 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 local YMCA in the late '80s and early
'90s, during which time he added some computer-related NVQs to his other qualifications, he has
steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Logan's Influence (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and False
Pretences (1982). Since the mid-80s John 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) Maximum Truth (1993), The Soul of Being (1998), Point Omega Point (2002), The Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction (2004), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Musings of a Superfluous Man
(2011) and, more recently, Atoms and Pseudo-Atoms (2014) and The Black Notebooks (2015). John O'Loughlin is a life-long bachelor who, more from necessity than design, has lived at various addresses in the London Borough of Haringey since 1974.
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