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Introducing
ELEMENTAL SPECTRA
Philosophical
Supernotes by
John O’Loughlin
Which can be
previewed via
the link below the following Centretruths
editorial:–
Dating from
1988–89, this seminal work investigates the significance of the basic
elements,
viz. air, fire, water and earth, with regard to a variety of different
disciplinary contexts, including science, politics, economics and
religion, before
seeking to draw ideological and moral lessons from the apperceived
correlations. Of additional significance
in relation to the Elements are the relationships between being and
doing,
awareness and emotion, mind and brain, nature and artifice,
individualism and
collectivism. There is also, within Elemental
Spectra, a critique of Arthur Koestler's
tripartite theories, as developed in books like The Act of Creation and Janus – A Summing Up, as well as a
refutation of his psychological pessimism concerning the dichotomous
relationship between what he calls the 'old brain' and the 'new
brain',
roughly
corresponding to the cerebellum and the cerebrum.
In
fact,
Koestler
is no less the principal philosophical target of this work than
Schopenhauer
was of the previous one (Towards the Supernoumenon),
and
although
Mr
O’Loughlin acknowledges his
debt to Koestler as an influence on his
thought, he was able to
move beyond him at this point and accordingly dispense with a number
of
his
theories. – A Centretruths Editorial
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