This volume of aphoristic philosophy, comprised of twenty-five numerically-recurring cycles together with an appendix, delves deeper into the distinction between primacy and supremacy, the inorganic and the organic, than arguably any of John O'Loughlin's previous books, including 'Beyond Imagination' (1999), and arrives at conclusions which make it impossible to underestimate the part played by contemporary urban civilization in the destruction, through environmental and technological factors, of inner harmony and peace. Fortunately a solution to the problem has been offered by the author,...
This volume of aphoristic philosophy, comprised of twenty-five numerically-recurring cycles together with an appendix, delves deeper into the distinct...
Each time John O'Loughlin writes a new book it is as though it were the literary equivalent of a music CD, with a number of titles that, by and large, are independent of each other and encourage the reader to proceed from one subject to another in what is almost invariably a cyclical progression, thereby achieving a degree of metaphysical credibility. In this particular project there are some twenty cycles, all of which are self-sufficient and yet also interrelated in what becomes a bigger picture of an overall philosophy stretching ever further onwards in the quest for ultimate truth and,...
Each time John O'Loughlin writes a new book it is as though it were the literary equivalent of a music CD, with a number of titles that, by and large,...
Similar in structure to 'The Totality of Nature' (2000), but originally more consciously tailored to the space limitations of audio CD transcription, 'The Promise of "Kingdom Come"' (the quotes are advisable in view of the political dubiousness of the term 'kingdom' in this democratic day and age) proceeds through nine cycles, with titles ranging from 'The Wisdom of Sensible Truth' to 'Saving and/or Damning from the World'. Not all of it, however, is profoundly philosophic, and some lighter material is certainly provided by 'Bottles, Cans, and Beakers', arguably one of the author's most...
Similar in structure to 'The Totality of Nature' (2000), but originally more consciously tailored to the space limitations of audio CD transcription, ...
'The Right to Sanity' is yet another of John O'Loughlin's cyclical works of aphoristic purism, which goes to the roots of Western insanity and offers both an explanation of and alternative to the dilemma of what he calls the paradoxical primacy afflicting modern society which, granting undue prominence to the inorganic, has the effect of twisting moral and other evaluations towards an anti-natural perspective in which ugliness passes for beauty and falsity for truth, to name but two categories. Also of especial note in this book is an attack on what the author likes to think of as the...
'The Right to Sanity' is yet another of John O'Loughlin's cyclical works of aphoristic purism, which goes to the roots of Western insanity and offers ...
With a title that is obviously a pun on 'Agnus Dei', this eighteenth example of John O'Loughlin's cyclical philosophy expands on 'The Right to Sanity' (2000), its immediate predecessor, to embrace a deeper analysis of the distinction between 'right' and 'wrong', or immorality and morality, and does so in relation to a number of dichotomous contexts, including sensuality and sensibility, competition and co-operation, insanity and sanity, race and culture. In fact, this text delves into the European racial dichotomy - notwithstanding the existence of Slavs and Latins - between Nordic and...
With a title that is obviously a pun on 'Agnus Dei', this eighteenth example of John O'Loughlin's cyclical philosophy expands on 'The Right to Sanity'...
With subjects that range from modern architecture and myth to the relationship of sensuality to sensibility in the evolution of media technology, this book is sufficiently variegated to be of general interest even if it didn't also contain material that expands on its predecessor, 'Magnus Dei' (2001) - as, for example, race - and is instantly recognizable in relation to the nature and development of the author's philosophy within an elemental structure that not only evaluates things or situations from a standpoint based in the four elements, but embraces a moral evaluation of them on both...
With subjects that range from modern architecture and myth to the relationship of sensuality to sensibility in the evolution of media technology, this...
