THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS

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THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

The entire text of which can be accessed via the links below the following introduction:-

Unlike Literature and the Intercardinal Axial Compass and several of those titles preceding it, this is not a revised and reformatted compilation of philosophical weblogs but, on the contrary, an actual e-book written into a notebook and then transcribed to computer, so that it is the first – and probably last – of its kind since at least Jesus - A Summing Up (2005), and does more summing up, as well as extending and completing, my philosophy than even the aforementioned text, with its allusion to Koestler’s book of a similar name. In this case, the 'best of all possible worlds' is decidedly metaphysical and pseudo-metachemical and therefore germane to what I would call ‘Kingdom Come’, even if an appreciation of this requires an understanding of everything else, whether contrary to or beneath it, in order that one may be left in no doubt about the desirability, from a metaphysical standpoint, of such a perfect world. We have dreamed of it for centuries, if not millennia, but it is only now that the possibility of actually turning the dream into reality can be seriously undertaken in the sure knowledge of what is required and of why its requirement is so important, both morally and socially. With The Best of All Possible Worlds I can confidently say that I have reached the culmination point of my oeuvre and achieved my philosophical goal in what is arguably the best of all (my) possible texts! - John O'Loughlin.

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

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 due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in Aldershot and, following the death and repatriation of his Irish-born grandmother, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up 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. After a brief flirtation with Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and False Pretences (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and penned more than sixty titles of a philosophical nature, including Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Veritas Philosophicus (1992), Maximum Truth (1993), Eternal Life (1995), Revolutions of an Ideological Philosopher (1997), The Core of the Self (1998), and, more recently, Literature and the Intercardinal Axial Compass (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O'Loughlin has continued, since 1974, to live at various addresses in Crouch End and Hornsey, north London, but would like, one day, to return to Ireland.