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THE ILLUSORY TRUTH
by John
O'Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
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Divided
into three parts, of which the first is by far the longest, this philosophical sequel to Between Truth and Illusion (1977), expands on the dualistic theories outlined therein, abandoning the more
literary approach of its predecessor for a paradoxically aphoristic bias in
which I began to develop an almost existentialist awareness of the extent to
which many so-called truths are founded upon illusory concepts and, to that
extent, are not really 'true' at all, but convenient fictions masking the brute
reality of natural facts. – John O'Loughlin
CONTENTS
PART ONE: APHORISTIC ESSAYS
THE PHILOSOPHER AS MAN - NOT MACHINE
TWO TYPES OF THINKER
THINKING SHOULD BE DIFFICULT
A JUSTIFICATION OF BOREDOM
ULTIMATE JUSTICE
NO ESCAPING EVIL
THE WAY IT HAS TO BE
NO HOPE WITHOUT FEAR
TWENTY MISTAKEN IDEAS
SLIGHTLY EXISTENTIAL
WORDS AS OUR REALITY
PARTLY OUR CREATION
TRUTHS BUT NO TRUTH
REALITY AND REALITIES
HUMAN DIVERSITY
NO TWO ALIKE
TIME BELONGS TO MAN
INEVITABLY UNREASONABLE
PUPPETS OF LIFE
THE NEGATIVE ROOT
THE STRUGGLE FOR HAPPINESS
WORK AND PLAY
NO FREEDOM WITHOUT BONDAGE
FROM WINTER TO AUTUMN
NO 'MOTHER NATURE'
MALE AND FEMALE PRIDE
AGAINST FOLLY
SUSPENDED JUDGEMENT
AGAINST REINCARNATION
SUPERSTITION UNIVERSAL
THE END OF THE WORLD
ART AS IDEALITY
GREAT ART
NO HEALTH WITHOUT DISEASE
ILLNESS NO OBJECTION
THE 'PLIMSOLL LINE' OF SLEEP
A WIDER VIEW OF VICE
MISUSED CONCEPTS
AGAINST RACIAL INEQUALITY
THE TRANSIENCE OF DEATH
PHILOSOPHY VERSES INSULAR INTOLERANCE
INDIVIDUAL WISDOM
THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF LIFE
THE INFERIOR NEGATIVE
FOUR CATEGORIES
NEGATIVES SERVE
SUCCESSFUL FAILURES
POSITIVELY SELFISH
A POSTHUMOUS B.C.
SCHISMATIC CHRISTIANITY
LIVE SYMBOLS
INTERPLANETARY EQUILIBRIUM
MAGNETIC RECIPROCITIES
UNIVERSE OR UNIVERSES
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL
PART TWO: ESSAYISTIC APHORISMS
ESSAYISTIC APHORISMS
PART THREE: APHORISMS (Maxims)
APHORISMS
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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 upon the prior death of her Aldershot-based husband had initially returned to Ireland 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 sent to a children's home
by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his grandmother, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys. Upon leaving the latter 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, 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 through Great Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he had enrolled to do English and History A Levels, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of personal factors, 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 Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Fixed Limits (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), and Deceptive
Motives (1981). 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 Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
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