Bøger af John O'Loughlin

This little book takes John O'Loughlin's philosophy to something approaching a definitive level in relation to those attributes of each of the Elements which make will, spirit, ego and soul possible, and cause them to jostle for primacy or supremacy, according to context, in individuals both separately and collectively, as well as in civilization as a reflection of one sort of society or another, depending on a variety of factors, not least of all environmental. But this slender work of aphoristic philosophy is equally definitive in relation to its understanding of what is called people's civilization and why, despite appearances to the contrary or what anybody might say, such a largely urban civilization, built around the proletariat, can only be totalitarian and is, even now, effectively totalitarian in what most characterizes it and what the author holds to be the precondition of an ultimate totalitarianism, as alluded to in the title, which, if implemented, would take this civilization to its omega point and therefore definitive realization. - A Centretruths editorial

Building on the structural comprehensiveness achieved in 'The Myth of Equality' (2001), this volume of aphoristic philosophy returns us to the concept of the so-called 'Triadic Beyond', and explains the distinction, hitherto unstressed in the author's work, between primary and secondary forms of both salvation and damnation, according to denominational predisposition and gender affiliation, within the subdivisions of any given tier. It also builds upon the dichotomy between nature and psyche in both sensuality and sensibility, as introduced in the earlier title, to explain, in greater detail, why either nature conditions psyche or, more sensibly, psyche conditions nature. Of course, the author openly acknowledges the extent to which gender factors-in to the distinction between 'free nature' and 'free psyche', but suggests that, through environmental progress, we have the ability to change the relationship of the one to the other in the interests of a more sensible outcome. Finally, he reaffirms his opposition to religious affiliations based on psychic determinism (binding), and argues in favour of the environmental justification for an ultimate religious manifestation, within the triadic framework alluded to above, of psychic freedom, simultaneously restating the terms and means by which this could officially be brought to pass. - A Centretruths editorial

A four-book volume of maxims and aphorisms, most of which have a metaphysical bias which tends to become progressively more pronounced. Originally dating from 1994, 'Occasional Maxims' and 'Maximum Occasions' pave the way for 'Omega Maxims' and 'Maximum Omega', both of which date from 1996, so that there is a two-year gap between each of the reverse-title pairings that, with three other titles written in a different style coming in-between, renders the latter pair somewhat more thematically and even ideologically advanced, relative to what had preceded it within the ongoing evolution of John O'Loughlin's philosophical oeuvre towards its inevitable omega point. - A Centretruths editorial

This project, divided into two books, signifies an attempt by author John O'Loughlin to return to basics in philosophy and understand the connections and indeed interrelations of antitheses, polarities, opposites, and other such neat philosophical categories in relation to the relativity of everyday life. It is not an express attempt to expound the Truth ... in respect of metaphysical knowledge ... but, rather, a modest undertaking, on his part, to comprehend the paradoxes of the world in which we happen to live, and thus seek to unveil some of the illusions and superstitions which make the pursuit of metaphysical knowledge such a difficult, not to say protracted, task. Hopefully the result of this undertaking is a franker and maturer approach to those very paradoxes which were the inspiration for this project and which led to some of its most striking contentions, if not conclusions! - A Centretruths editorial

As with his previous title, 'Keys to the Kingdom of Truth', this new work tends to utilize both aphorisms discursively and maxims sequentially in a kind of compromise between contrasting approaches to John O'Loughlin's writing, the one more literary and the other more technical, with some material of an autobiographical nature included for good measure, as also in an attempt to clarify his situation as a self-styled intellectual whose 'journey' to a well-nigh definitive realization of his thinking did not happen overnight. - A Centretruths editorial

With this anthology of his 'sequentially structured maxims', free thinker John O'Loughlin has finally arrived at the ne plus ultra of his philosophical oeuvre, which combines all the most logically consistent material from the last twelve original titles (2014 - 2019) in one definitive volume that, on account of the comprehensively exacting nature of his quadripartite structures and the way their theorizing evolves, must rank as the 'bible' of his philosophy, if not of all philosophy of a metaphysical persuasion, that yet allows for other categories, both atomic and pseudo-atomic, to be accounted for in such fashion that everything is, as it were, nailed into place the better to support the overall morphology of unrelenting logic. - A Centretruths editorial