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Introducing
THE WILL TO
TRUTH
Essays
& Dialogues by John
O'Loughlin
Which can be
previewed via
the link below the following Centretruths
editorial:–
Mr O'Loughlin's
main philosophical project of 1983 combines dialogues and essays with
aphorisms
and maxims in a so-called multigenre volume of which essays form by
far
the
greater proportion. However, nine
dialogues is no mean undertaking, and they range from subjects as
diverse –
albeit interrelated – as the freeing of art from mundane attachments
as
it
evolves from pagan to transcendental times; the distinction between
Jews and
Israelis; the development of awareness at the expense of feeling in
art; the
moral implications of sexual sublimation; the evolutionary struggle
from
gravity to curved space; the development of religion from the personal
to the
universal; the nature of petty-bourgeois art; the possibility of
denominational
progress in Western religion; and the apotheosis of the 'universal
man'. Such, then, is the scope of the
opening
section, while the ensuing section not surprisingly enlarges on many
of
the subjects
touched upon in the dialogues, as well as introduces a number of fresh
ones,
including the main distinction between Christianity and
Transcendentalism; the
psychology of swearers; the irrelevance of punishment to a
transcendental
society; architectural and sartorial relationships to gravity both
upwards and
downwards; understanding jazz in relation to other types of
contemporary music;
the distinction between philosophy and pseudo-philosophy; and the
nature of
ultimate music. Originally intended as a
sort of sequel to the above, the concluding sections move us on and up
from the
phenomenal realm of dialogues and essays to what Mr O'Loughlin likes
to
think
of as the noumenal realm of aphorisms and maxims, in which the will is
at one
with the truth it strives to convey through the most concise means and
is if
not Truth itself then at any rate certainly truthful!
Subjects treated here include the relation
between sexuality and dress; the nature of the self; the significance
of
Israel; the role and nature of worship in popular religion; poetry
verses
philosophy; the evolution of the arts; the metaphysics of modern
music;
the
psyche; God; ideology; and, last but by no means least, gender.
Although The Will to Truth should not
be taken for the Truth,
meaning, I suppose, total metaphysical insight, it nonetheless
signifies a significant
stage on the road to John O'Loughlin's achievement, in due course, of
greater
degrees of philosophical truth, and is arguably more radical than
anything
preceding it in this field! – A Centretruths Editorial
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