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Introducing
ELEMENTAL SPECTRA
A loosely aphoristic philosophy project by
John O’Loughlin
Which can be previewed via
the link below the following Centretruths editorial:-
Dating from
1988-89, this seminal work investigates the significance of the basic elements,
viz. air, fire, water and earth, with regard to a variety of different
disciplinary contexts, including science, politics, economics and religion, before
seeking to draw ideological and moral lessons from the apperceived
correlations. Of additional significance
in relation to the Elements are the relationships between being and doing,
awareness and emotion, mind and brain, nature and artifice, individualism and
collectivism. There is also, within Elemental
Spectra, a critique of Arthur Koestler's
tripartite theories, as developed in books like The Act of Creation and Janus - A Summing Up, as well as a
refutation of his psychological pessimism concerning the dichotomous
relationship between what he calls the 'old brain' and the 'new brain', roughly
corresponding to the cerebellum and the cerebrum. In fact, Koestler
is no less the principal philosophical target of this work than Schopenhauer
was of the previous one (Towards the Supernoumenon),
and although Mr O’Loughlin acknowledges his debt to Koestler as an influence on his thought, he was able to
move beyond him at this point and accordingly dispense with a number of his
theories. - A Centretruths editorial.
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