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Welcome to the DUALISTIC PHILOSOPHY of

THE ILLUSORY TRUTH

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

Links to the files of which follow the brief introduction below:-

 

Divided into three parts, of which the first is by far the longest, this philosophical sequel to Between Truth and Illusion (1977), expands on the dualistic theories outlined therein, abandoning the more literary approach of its predecessor for a paradoxically aphoristic bias in which I began to develop an almost existentialist awareness of the extent to which many so-called truths are founded upon illusory concepts and, to that extent, are not really 'true' at all, but convenient fictions masking the brute reality of natural facts. – John O’Loughlin

 

 

CONTENTS

THE PHILOSOPHER AS MAN - NOT MACHINE

TWO TYPES OF THINKER

THINKING SHOULD BE DIFFICULT

A JUSTIFICATION OF BOREDOM

ULTIMATE JUSTICE

NO ESCAPING EVIL

THE WAY IT HAS TO BE

NO HOPE WITHOUT FEAR

TWENTY MISTAKEN IDEAS

SLIGHTLY EXISTENTIAL

WORDS AS OUR REALITY

PARTLY OUR CREATION

TRUTHS BUT NO TRUTH

REALITY AND REALITIES

HUMAN DIVERSITY

NO TWO ALIKE

TIME BELONGS TO MAN

INEVITABLY UNREASONABLE

PUPPETS OF LIFE

THE NEGATIVE ROOT

THE STRUGGLE FOR HAPPINESS

WORK AND PLAY

NO FREEDOM WITHOUT BONDAGE

FROM WINTER TO AUTUMN

NO 'MOTHER NATURE'

MALE AND FEMALE PRIDE

AGAINST FOLLY

SUSPENDED JUDGEMENT

AGAINST REINCARNATION

SUPERSTITION UNIVERSAL

THE END OF THE WORLD

ART AS IDEALITY

GREAT ART

NO HEALTH WITHOUT DISEASE

ILLNESS NO OBJECTION

THE 'PLIMSOLL LINE' OF SLEEP

A WIDER VIEW OF VICE

MISUSED CONCEPTS

AGAINST RACIAL INEQUALITY

THE TRANSIENCE OF DEATH

PHILOSOPHY VERSES INSULAR INTOLERANCE

INDIVIDUAL WISDOM

THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF LIFE

THE INFERIOR NEGATIVE

FOUR CATEGORIES

NEGATIVES SERVE

SUCCESSFUL FAILURES

POSITIVELY SELFISH

A POSTHUMOUS B.C.

SCHISMATIC CHRISTIANITY

LIVE SYMBOLS

INTERPLANETARY EQUILIBRIUM

MAGNETIC RECIPROCITIES

UNIVERSE OR UNIVERSES

BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL

ESSAYISTIC APHORISMS

APHORISMS

 

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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 Deceptive Motives (1981). 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), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Philosophical Truth (1991-2) and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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