Welcome to the SUPERNOTATIONAL PHILOSOPHY of
ELEMENTAL SPECTRA
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
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Dating from 1988-9,
this work investigates the significance of the four basic elements, viz. air,
fire, water and earth, with regard to a variety of different disciplinary
contexts, including science, politics, economics and religion, and then seeks
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 the theory underlying 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 I acknowledge my debt to him as an influence on my thought, I was
able to move beyond him at this point and accordingly dispense with a number of
his theories. – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
Aphs. 1-50
Aphs. 51-100
Aphs. 101-150
Aphs. 151-200
Aphs. 201-253
Aphs. 254-285
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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 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 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 Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Critique of Post-Dialectical Idealism (1989-91),
Philosophical Truth (1991-2), Maximum Truth (1993), Total Truth (2002), and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (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.
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