Welcome to the SUPERNOTATIONAL (loosely aphoristic) PHILOSOPHY of
TOWARDS THE SUPERNOUMENON
by
John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the files of
which follow the remarks below:–
Carrying on from
where From Materialism to Idealism (1986) leaves off, this volume of
supernotes, or loosely aphoristic material, is more intensely philosophical
than its predecessor, as it introduces to the fourfold structures already
established the concept of devolutionary/evolutionary antitheses into
historical development, coupling this to an investigation of certain key
historico-ontological philosophers, including Schopenhauer, and contrasting his
noumenal-phenomenal approach to philosophy with what I have called a
superphenomenal-supernoumenal one intended to illustrate the distinction
between 'artificial' modernity and 'naturalistic' antiquity, the former of
which bears witness to what Nietzsche would have called a ‘transvaluation of
values’ to the extent that it would seem to be more omega-orientated than
alpha-stemming.In this respect, it
could be said to reflect a contrast between philosophy, as traditionally
practised by alpha-stemming thinkers like Schopenhauer, and a radical concept
of theosophy, in which an evolutionary drive towards the omega of things is
discernible, as was the case, to a certain extent, with the aforementioned ‘transvaluator
of all values.’ – John O’Loughlin.
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 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 premature death of her 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 WC1, where he eventually became responsible for booking venues throughout Britain and Ireland for the Board's classical music exams.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of personal factors, quit the ABRSM 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 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 and Deceptive
Motives (both 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), From Materialism to Idealism (1986-7), 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).
