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Changing Worlds
An autobiographical-cum-philosophical novel by John O'Loughlin, in which a bored and disillusioned young clerk fantasizes about and then actually determines to become a writer, come what may, despite a variety of environmental, social, and other disadvantages which make it an altogether more complicated fantasy to realize than he had initially expected!
End Station J J
This title is intended to be John O'Loughlin's ultimate non-fiction book, going beyond his previous such book Endstation H H (with its German title) in so many ways that one would hesitate to regard it as a continuation of the theories broached therein – although to some extent it is – so much as a revolutionary overhaul and break with them that should prove to be as logically definitive and thematically exacting as is humanly possible, and therefore even more philosophically comprehensive. Thus whilst this title may not appeal to everyone, on account of its sheer complexity, it should satisfy the curiosity of those who, already partly familiar with the author's mature, or late-period, writings, would like to see just how he has progressed and exactly why he considers this to be his ultimate, and therefore definitive, theoretical book, one that should surely place him right at the forefront of religiously-orientated philosophical endeavour. – A Centretruths Editorial
Quotable Thoughts
An original aphoristic philosophy project divided into two substantive parts, the first of which, entitled 'Quotable Thoughts', is less technically sophisticated and altogether more concise than the second, entitled 'Unquotable Thoughts', which is quasi-essayistic in character, albeit still written within a loosely aphoristic framework the contents of which would, given their average length, be difficult if not impossible to memorize, or quote. Finally, this eBook is rounded off with an essayistic appendix and a fairly brief biographical sketch of the author. Following on from Notable Thoughts (2022), this is John O'Loughlin's most advanced and logically definitive text, which should reward those who are really keen to learn how things comprehensively 'stack up' on a variety of levels, both negatively and positively, on terms which considerably expose the misleading and possibly expedient nature of common usage in respect of what he holds to be crass generalizations. – A Centretruths Editorial
A Trilogy Transcendent
A TRILOGY TRANSCENDENT is a kind of loose trilogy of novels originally written in 1980 and sharing a common transcendental theme which has particular though not exclusive reference to modern art and its examination and appreciation from a pro-avantgarde standpoint that is often in opposition to philistine reaction from a variety of conservative quarters, whose penchant for 'the concrete' tends to exclude abstraction.
D(R)EAD ENDS
Following on from End Station J J, John (James) O'Loughlin's previous collection of notational aphorisms, this project brings his philosophical journey to a conclusive peak, as it both sums-up and enlarges upon his recent thinking in relation to modern/post-modern criteria and the frankly dreadful pass to which reason (stemming from the so-called 'Age of Enlightenment') has come, and why it must be opposed from a kind of 'third way' beholden to the resurrection of revelation, if what amounts to the opposite of true enlightenment is eventually to be consigned to the 'rubbish bin' of regrettable history, and civilization accordingly be enabled to move-on towards a universal resolution owing li...
Notable Thoughts
A collection of thoughts transformed into aphoristic units that continue from where the author's previous eBook, D(r)ead Ends, left off, thereby rounding-off many aspects of his mature philosophical thinking, an example of which is: 'Thoughts are what you cause to happen in your mind; notes are the effect of those thoughts transcribed to a receptive medium, like paper or a computer screen, which can then be read, whether narcissistically by yourself or curiously by someone else for purposes best known to themselves.' Need one say more? – A Centretruths Editorial
DUALISM
This project, divided into two books, both of which originally date from 1977 but have now been extensively revised and reissued in a new format, signifies an attempt by me to return to basics in philosophy and understand the connections and indeed interrelations of antitheses, polarities, opposites, and other such neat philosophical categories in relation to the relativity of everyday life. It is not an express attempt to expound the Truth ... in respect of metaphysical knowledge ... but, rather, a modest undertaking, on my part, to comprehend the paradoxes of the world in which we happen to live, and seek to unveil some of the illusions and superstitions which make the pursuit of metaphysical knowledge such a difficult, not to say protracted, task. Hopefully the result of this undertaking is a franker and maturer approach to those very paradoxes which were the inspiration for this project and which led to some of its most striking contentions. - A Centretruths Editorial
FINAL THOUGHTS
The final aphoristic project in John O'Loughlin's sequence of 'Thought' books, from Notable Thoughts to Quotable Thoughts and even Thoughts (as a combination of the previous two titles), Final Thoughts is indeed the ultimate such book, in that it wraps-up the author's philosophy on the most logically and structurally definitive terms, bringing it to a resounding conclusion which consummately vindicates his decades-long commitment to the pursuit of logical certainty or, in general parlance, philosophical truth. – A Centretruths Editorial
Reservations in Orange and Green
What the author wanted with this title, which derives from the fact that he alternated between green- and orange-covered notebooks during its composition, was a framework that allowed him to think and write freely without making concessions to political overtones of an ethnically-biased Irish nature, and somehow he has succeeded, even at this comparatively late stage in his literary vocation, in both correcting a fairly long-standing philosophic error of logic in his thought and extending his philosophy to embrace an entirely new perspective which he believes to be of seminal importance in both understanding and defining contemporary civilization as an extension of Western civilization, whether or not one relates to it or has any ancestral connections with it.
COLLECTED SUPERNOTES
With his 'Collected Supernotes' author John O'Loughlin has combined, on a highly abstract basis, material derived from the independently published titles, Devil and God – The Omega Book, From Materialism to Idealism, Towards the Supernoumenon, Elemental Spectra, Critique of Post-Dialectical Idealism, Philosophical Truth, Veritas Philosophicus, and Last Judgements, which span the period 1985–93, with a view to bringing some kind of strict chronology to bear on a series of writings dubbed 'supernotational', to distinguish them from essays on the one hand and aphorisms on the other, thereby allowing him to establish a kind of intermediate position between essays and aphorisms in the interests of what became a gradual progression towards an enhanced sense of philosophical logic commensurate, so he believes, with 'Supertruth' and, ultimately, with a kind of plateau of aphoristic purism. – A Centretruths Editorial
