Welcome to the MULTIGENRE PHILOSOPHY of

THE WILL TO TRUTH

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

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My main philosophical project of 1983 combines dialogues and essays with aphorisms and maxims in a four-part volume of which essays form by far the greater proportion.  However, nine dialogues is no mean undertaking, and they range from subjects as diverse - albeit interrelated - as the freeing of art from mundane attachments as it evolves from pagan to transcendental times; the distinction between Jews and Israelis; the development of awareness at the expense of emotion in art; the moral implications of sexual sublimation; the evolutionary struggle from gravity to curved space; the development of religion from the personal to the universal; the nature of petty-bourgeois art; the possibility of denominational progress in Western religion; and the apotheosis of the 'universal man'.  Such, then, is the scope of Part One, while Part Two, not surprisingly, enlarges upon many of the subjects first broached in the dialogues, as well as introduces a number of new ones, including the main distinction between Christianity and Transcendentalism; the psychology of swearers; the irrelevance of punishment to a transcendental society; architectural and sartorial relationships to gravity both upwards and downwards; understanding Jazz in relation to other types of modern music; the distinction between philosophy and pseudo-philosophy; and the nature of ultimate music.  Originally intended as a sort of sequel to the above, Parts Three and Four move us on and up from the phenomenal realm of dialogues and essays to what I like to think of as the noumenal realm of aphorisms and maxims, in which the will is at one with the truth it strives to convey through the most concise means and is, if not Truth itself, then at any rate certainly highly truthful!  Subjects treated here include the relation between sexuality and dress; the nature of the self; the significance of Israel; the role and nature of worship in popular religion; poetry verses philosophy; the evolution of the arts; the metaphysics of modern music; the psyche; God; ideology; and gender.  Although The Will to Truth, standing at opus 30 in a 122-opus oeuvre mostly dedicated to works of an aphoristic philosophical nature, should not be taken for the Truth, meaning, I suppose, total metaphysical insight, it signifies a significant stage on the road to my achievement, in due course, of greater degrees of philosophical truth, and is arguably more radical than anything preceding it in this field! – John O’Loughlin.

 

 

CONTENTS

THE FREEING OF ART

OF JEWS AND ISRAELIS

FEELING AND AWARENESS

RELATIVE PERVERSION

FROM GRAVITY TO CURVED SPACE

FROM THE PERSONAL TO THE UNIVERSAL

PETTY-BOURGEOIS ART

RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION

AN ULTIMATE UNIVERSALITY

FUTURE RELIGIOUS PROGRESS

THE EVOLUTION OF ART

HUMAN EXTREMES

POST-ATOMIC PROGRESS

TWO APPROACHES TO SALVATION

AN ABSOLUTE ASPIRATION

CONCERNING SWEARERS

THE FUTURE ABSOLUTE

TWO TYPES OF CRITICISM

BETWEEN TWO GRAVITIES

UNDERSTANDING JAZZ

PHILOSOPHY - GENUINE AND PSEUDO

THE ULTIMATE MUSIC

ON SEXUALITY

ON THE SELF

ON RACISM AND ANTI-TRIBALISM

ON RELIGION

ON LITERATURE

ON THE ARTS

ON JAZZ

ON THE PSYCHE

ON GOD AND EVOLUTION

ON BEING AND DOING

ON IDEOLOGY

ON SEX AND GENDER

 

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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 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, Oakham, and, following the death and repatriation of his 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 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), Cross-Purposes (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and Deceptive Motives (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and has penned more than sixty titles of a philosophical nature, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Philosophical Truth (1991-2), and, more recently, The Centre of Truth (2009). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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