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VALUATIONS OF
A
SOCIAL
TRANSCENDENTALIST
Cyclic
Philosophy by John
O'Loughlin
Which can be
previewed via
the link below the following Centretruths
editorial:–
Carrying on
from the multipart style of writing first introduced into his
philosophy with Alpha
and Omega (2002), this volume of aphoristic writings
by John O'Loughlin is divisible into
three six-chapter
parts
entitled 'Revaluations', 'Evaluations' and 'Transvaluations',
and
therefore
approaches
the task outlined in the title from three
different
standpoints, albeit without undue inflexibility or too methodical a
distinction
between them. Nevertheless the result,
overall, is not logically displeasing, and each part has something new
and
different to offer, not least the third, which is closer to the
'transcendentalism' of the ideological title than to its 'social'
aspect in the
way the emphasis has been placed on transvaluating,
that
is,
on shifting the concept of various notions or ideals or realities
from
alpha to omega, soma to psyche, not-self to self, in the interests of
a
transvaluation of society along lines
likely, if not
guaranteed, to lead to the sorts of positive outcomes which,
disdaining
devaluations,
the author has identified with virtue and, hence, morality, as
befitting an
alternative kind of society to that which, dominated by a devaluating
ethic,
generally prevails at present; and not only in countries or contexts
where it
is demonstrably official, but also wherever it exists unofficially in
consequence of the overwhelming influences and pressures which have
been
brought to bear on virtually all Western
societies by their more powerful neighbours.
Nevertheless this project is by no means defeatist but, on the
contrary,
cautiously optimistic as to the prospect of some kind of alternative
dispensation, broadly identifiable with 'Kingdom Come', for the
future. With certain revaluations of
previous
philosophical positions taken by Mr O'Loughlin
and a
number of fresh evaluations also included along with these transvaluations,
he can confidently claim to have finally reached the upper reaches of
his oeuvre
and thus satisfied his claim to messianic credibility, whatever others
may
think. – A Centretruths Editorial
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