The files of which can be
accessed via the remarks below:–
This volume of aphoristic philosophy entitled Revaluations and Transvaluations not
only revaluates certain positions recently postulated in my philosophical works,
and therefore corrects or modifies their conclusions, but extends my
transvaluating towards a totally new understanding and conception of
Christianity and what logically followed it, so that the path is prepared, as
it were, for the revelations concerning religion and the destiny of the
phenomenally sensual 'meek' which owe more to this transvaluation than ever
they do to any conventional or traditional notions concerning such subjects as
the Immaculate Conception, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and, indeed, the
entire belief system of Christianity in respect of a Second Coming and Day of
Judgement. In the end, what transpires is a revaluation of Christianity
in the light of my mature philosophy and its Social Theocratic commitment to
truth of an ultimate order, which exposes the errors that stem from presumption
of the death of God on the Cross and lead, inevitably, towards a humanistic
dead-end.I also expose the limitations of terms like 'mankind'
and 'man' in relation to the full-gamut of class and gender possibilities which
actually exist and condition or characterize life from one standpoint or
another, and show more fully how things actually divide into two axes which are
not only divisible in themselves, but antithetical in virtually every respect,
even with regard to sport and sex, on both somatic and psychic, state- and
church-oriented terms. In sum, this important title not only revaluates a
number of philosophical contentions on my part, making for a new and better
understanding of ideological distinctions between 'Left' and 'Right' and of how
amorality factors-in to the opposition between immorality and morality in such
fashion that they are never strictly polar, but extends my thinking towards a
culmination-point which is the fruit of both a correct premise and an ability
to transvaluate certain presumptions concerning God and man which turns things
around and enables one to make sense out of the historical struggles leading,
as it were, from the 'Garden of Eden' to the world and from the world,
hopefully, to 'Kingdom Come', as reinterpreted from a standpoint firmly centred
in an ultimate transvaluation, the product of all previous revaluations. – John
O’Loughlin.
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 upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter 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 infants and St.
George's RC junior 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-protective 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
to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, one of which was at Ivor
Mairants Music Centre, 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 as a clerical officer for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland. After a brief flirtation with
English and History A' Level further education 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, he 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 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 numerous titles of a philosophical nature,
including Devil and God
(1985–6), Towards the
Supernoumenon(1987), Elemental
Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical
Truth (1991–2) and, more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad
(2011), and Philosophic
Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012). John O'Loughlin is a bachelor who, more through necessity than design, has lived at various addresses in the north London borough of Haringey since 1974.
