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Welcome to the CYCLICAL APHORISTIC PHILOSOPHY of

THE TOTALITY OF NATURE

OR NATURAL TOTALITARIANISM

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

Links to the files of which follow the remarks below:–

 

Each time I write a new ‘book’ – or is that e-scroll? – it is as though it were the literary equivalent of a music CD, with a number of titles that, by and large, are independent of each other and encourage one to proceed from one subject to another in a numerically cyclical progression.  In this particular project there are some twenty aphoristic cycles, all of which are self-sufficient and yet also interrelated in what becomes a larger picture of an overall philosophy stretching, in sensibility, ever further onwards in the quest for ultimate truth and perfection.  I needn't elaborate on any of the subjects here, because most of them will have been explored to some degree in my work before; but I doubt whether I have ever written or, rather, composed, methodically and meticulously, anything better, least of all in relation to the complex philosophical and moral problems posed by the distinction of 'right' and 'wrong', which here undergo what I believe to be a morally definitive presentation. – John O’Loughlin.

 

CONTENTS

CAUSE AND EFFECT

RETURNING TO MEANING

A TRANSVALUATED OVERALL PICTURE

PROGRESSIVE AND REGRESSIVE PARTNERSHIPS

THE END OF HISTORY

THE EXTREMES OF SELF-CULTIVATION

PARADIGMATIC TRIPLICITIES

MEAN AND SHADOW

SOME TECHNOLOGICAL PARALLELS

TRAMP AND BUM

THE JUSTICE OF JUDGEMENT

JUSTICE TO THE PEOPLE

CONTRARY FATES OF RISING AND FALLING

BLESSED AND CURSED VIS-A-VIS SAVED AND DAMNED

CONTRASTING RATES OF ELEMENTAL AFFINITIES

THE REALITY OF RIGHT AND WRONG

COMMON AND UNCOMMON IN SENSUALITY AND SENSIBILITY

AS IN THE BEGINNING, SO ANTITHETICALLY IN THE END

THE MORAL DESIRABILITY OF CULTURE AND CIVILITY

THE TOTALITY OF NATURE

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland following the death of her Aldershot-based husband after a lengthy marital absence) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St. George's schools in Aldershot, Hants, and, with an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care with Hill House Children's Home by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-conservative grandmother, he then 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 he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland. After a brief flirtation with history-orientated 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 factors, left the ABRSM in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which, despite a brief spell as a computer-cum-office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency in the local YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), 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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