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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!
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
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
AN INTERVIEW REVIEWED
When an experienced magazine correspondent suddenly becomes ill before he can carry out his assignment, a young and comparatively inexperienced colleague is deputized to interview world-famous composer Howard Tonks in his stead, and things don't work out as planned for either of them! In fact, they go from bad to worse in ways which put not only the assignment, but the reputation of the magazine in serious jeopardy, threatening the livelihoods of both correspondents. Can a resolution to the dilemma in which the magazine subsequently finds itself be found, or will it be obliged to compensate the aggrieved party in some financially or socially compromising way? The answer lies within.
BEYOND THE PALE
This project came about as a result of disillusionment with the ephemeral or redundant nature of much autobiographical writing, which can be alarmingly quick to date, and consequently instead of one timescale for composition there are four different timescales, viz. 1983,'85, '93, and '96, corresponding to the divisions of the book into four headed parts, each of which was written quite independently of the others both in timescale and even, to a limited degree, in style. Thus the result is certainly 'beyond the pale' of both retrospectively inclusive and introspectively exclusive autobiographical writings and remains, to this day, open-ended.
THOUGHTS
A two-book volume of aphoristic philosophy comprising the hitherto separately published titles Notable Thoughts and Quotable Thoughts, the pair of which are introduced by an almost essayistic preface which sets the stage, as it were, for what follows with by now the author's familiar combinations of discursive and intensely logical thought. In short, a summational culmination of his two-pronged approach to thinking which neatly rounds-off his decades-long philosophical adventure. – 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
The Centre of Truth
All the items - call them essayistic aphorisms - in this collection of revised and reformatted weblogs were originally hosted at Anoox.com in blog format and succeed John O'Loughlin's other collections of weblogs both in date of composition (2009) and theoretical development, so that they might be regarded as the most advanced and conclusive project of its kind. In some instances, a fair amount of revision, including the incorporation of some additional material, has taken place, and the author is confident that this collection will bear out the claim to be revised and reformatted to an extent that warrants serious consideration as a book in itself, complete with a logically consistent struc...
The Myth of Equality
THE MYTH OF EQUALITY opens up the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism in relation to the connection between culture and race as they, in turn, are conditioned by environment, and further extends the basic gender-conditioned distinction between nature and nurture (or artifice) to include the effects of nature upon psyche and of psyche, conversely, upon nature or, as I would now say, soma. All in all, this book debunks simple equalitarian reductionism, whether of the humanistic or non-humanistic varieties, and shows that there is a whole lot more at stake than might at first meet the eye, especially when that eye has been blinkered, as it were, by social conditioning.
B.O.R.T.
Unlike anything else every written, and not only one ventures to guess by John O'Loughlin, this title endeavours to 'burn the candle', as it were, at both ends, coming 'down to earth' in the first part and going 'up to heaven' in the second, replicating the text of the former while diverging from it in terms of an approach to structure which is less prosaic than philosophic, in the sense of combining, and not for the first time in his oeuvre, aphorisms with maxims in relation to a metaphysical mean and intent. The aphoristic material, with him, is more loosely structured than the maxims, which are not maxims in the accepted sense of pithy sayings or apophthegms in which wisdom or knowledge i...
