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VALUATIONS OF A SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALIST

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

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Carrying on the multipart style of writing of Alpha and Omega (2002), this project is divisible into three six-chapter parts entitled 'Revaluations', 'Evaluations' and 'Transvaluations', and therefore approaches the task outlined in the title from three different standpoints, albeit without undue inflexibility or too methodical a distinction between them.  Nevertheless the result, overall, is not logically displeasing, and each part has something new and different to offer, not least the third, which is closer to the 'transcendentalism' of the ideological title than to its 'social' aspect in the way the emphasis has been placed on transvaluating, that is, on shifting the concept of various notions or ideals or realities from alpha to omega, soma to psyche, not-self to self, in the interests of a transvaluation of society along lines likely, if not guaranteed, to lead to the sorts of positive outcomes which, disdaining devaluations, I have identified with virtue, and hence morality, as befitting an alternative kind of society to that which, dominated by a devaluating ethic, generally prevails at present; and not only in countries or contexts where it is demonstrably official, but also wherever it exists unofficially in consequence of the overwhelming influences and pressures which have been brought to bear on virtually all Western societies by their more powerful neighbours.  Nevertheless, this project is by no means defeatist but, on the contrary, cautiously optimistic as to the prospect of some kind of alternative dispensation, broadly identifiable with 'Kingdom Come', for the future.  With certain revaluations of previous philosophical positions taken by me and a number of fresh evaluations also included along with these transvaluations, I feel that I can confidently claim to have finally reached the upper reaches of my oeuvre and thus satisfied my claim to messianic credibility as the godfather, in effect, of Social Transcendentalist truth, whatever others may think. – John O’Loughlin.

 

 

CONTENTS

 

PART ONE: REVALUATIONS

 

QUALIFYING FREEDOM

CURSED DAMNATION VIS-A-VIS BLESSED SALVATION

IMMUTABILITY OF THE GENDERS

MORE EXACTING TERMINOLOGIES

THE CASE FOR SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALISM

TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT

 

PART TWO: EVALUATIONS

 

CONTRASTING TYPES OF SANITY AND INSANITY

THE CHOICE TO BE MADE

THE NATURE OF DEMOCRACY

DELVING BENEATH THE SURFACE

GENDER AND SEXUAL PARADOXES

RECLAIMING TRUTH FROM THE JAWS OF FACT

 

PART THREE: TRANSVALUATIONS

 

ELEMENTALLY CONDITIONED MODES OF VALUATION

THE MORAL UNDERSIRABILITY OF STATE FREEDOM

THE MORAL DESIRABILITY OF CHURCH FREEDOM

GENDER STRUGGLES IN SENSUALITY AND SENSIBILITY

GETTING BACK ON TRACK

THE MEANING OF SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALISM

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

John James 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 dedicated himself exclusively 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), and Philosophical Truth (1991-2). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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