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Here at last,
in this four-part work,is the
actual omega point of my philosophical oeuvre as far as the achievement of a
definitive insight into the relationship of freedom to binding in both sensual
and sensible contexts is concerned, with an enhanced sense of the distinction
between a variety of terms that may previously have been used interchangeably
or even as equivalents.� Here, too, I can
safely claim to have done more justice to the conflicting relationships between
the individual and society than in previous texts, as well as developed a
superior understanding as to the desirability of universal culture in the
service of genuine religion for a world that needs to reject its factual and/or
illusory shortcomings, if civilization is to attain to its omega point in the
blessedness of sensible freedom and be truly at peace with itself. � John O�Loughlin.
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
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother in the mid-50s and subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St. George's schools in
Aldershot, Hants, and, upon the death and repatriation of his grandmother, a short spell at a school in Oakham, Rutland, before, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care with Hill House Children's Home by his mother, he attended first Barrow Hedges Primary School in Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys. Upon leaving the latter 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 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, due to a combination of factors, left the ABRSM in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview
Reviewed (1979), Secret
Exchanges (1980), Sublimated
Relations(1981), and Deceptive
Motives (1981). Since the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has dedicated himself almost exclusively to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has penned more than seventy titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and
God (1985-6), Towards
the Supernoumenon(1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Philosophical Truth (1991-2) and,
more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
