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Introducing
ELEMENTAL SPECTRA
Philosophical Supernotes by John O�Loughlin
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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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