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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