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THE DIALECTICS OF CIVILIZATION
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital
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This work, The Dialectics of Civilization, proves like no other that the
use of certain colloquial expressions can, if revaluated on a sufficiently comprehensive
basis, with one or two original additions thrown-in for good measure, lead to
startling insights, and enable one to deepen and/or broaden one's philosophy in
such fashion that it ends-up doing greater justice to the truth (in both
specific and comparative terms) than had been the case hitherto. Thus
with this title I have carried what was achieved in The
Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction (2004) to a new and, I would
suppose, altogether more definitively comprehensive level, a level which plots
the development of civilization, in the broadest sense, from its alpha-most
inception to its projected omega-most consummation, and does so with respect to
both linear and axial perspectives which combine to permit of yet another fresh
perspective that takes my theorizing to an all-time peak of dialectical
insight, a worthy culmination to my philosophical quest! For in this
project I have achieved a well-nigh definitive insight into the distinctions
between Space and Time which should leave one in no doubt as to the path that
leads to Eternity and thus to a sublime resolution of life, the culmination not
only of all civilization but, in a deeper sense, of that which transcends
civilization in truly post-historical terms. – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
Aphs. 1 – 25
Aphs. 26 – 50
Aphs. 51 – 75
Aphs. 76 – 100
Aphs. 101 – 125
Aphs. 126 – 138
Copyright © 2004-12 John O’Loughlin
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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 throughoutn 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, 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 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) and, more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad
(2011), and Limitless (2012). John O'Loughlin is a life-long bachelor who, more from necessity than design, has lived at various addresses in the north London borough of Haringey since 1974.
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