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Welcome to the METAPHYSICAL
PHILOSOPHY of
THE STRUGGLE FOR ULTIMATE FREEDOM
by John
O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the files
of which can be accessed below the ensuing remarks:–
I ought by now
to have learnt my lesson with regards to the sort of claim made before
about
definitive texts but, frankly, some further philosophical progress has been made, if in regard to a
revaluation – evaluating and revaluating being germane to the cyclical
structures of my work – of a quite long-standing evaluation concerning
devolution, which only confirms that intellectual progress happens by
degrees
and is a long and often tortuous process during the course of which new
insights and logical configurations come to light which enable one to
readdress
an old contention or, in this case, bone of contention, to a more
satisfactory
resolution.... Which does not mean that progress towards some
definitive
position isn’t possible or is simply a delusion, as some would have us
believe;
but it takes time and involves many rethinks and revaluations along the
way
such that only a patient and honest type of person, more likely male
and not
overly concerned with commercial viability or professorial credibility,
would
be capable of undertaking, given all the complexities involved. Nevertheless further progress, or perhaps I
should say redress, has emerged here, in The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom, a well-nigh definitive
text, and it
is to my cyclical credit that I have been able to recycle old material
and thereby
fashion something new, not least in respect of a more developed concept
of
religious freedom which will require the ideological subordination and
even
democratic supersession of political freedoms if globalization is
ultimately to
emerge in a more credibly universal guise – a contention which,
although
touched upon before, here achieves something like a definitive
presentation. –
John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
Aphs. 1–25
Aphs. 26–50
Aphs. 51–75
Aphs. 76–100
Aphs. 101–125
Aphs. 126–137
Copyright © 2012 John O’Loughlin
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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
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with her Aldershot-born daughter upon the death of her husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in
Aldershot (Hants) and, with an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been sent to Hill House Children's Home by his mother following the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother, Carshalton (Surrey). Shortly after leaving high school in pre-GCSE era 1970 with an
assortment of CSEs
(Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs
(General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved to London and went on, via two short-lived
jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, in Bedford
Square WC1, where as a clerical officer he eventually became responsible for booking ABRSM examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he had enrolled to do English and History A Levels, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of factors, quit the Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, where he gained some NVQs, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview
Reviewed (1979), Secret
Exchanges (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and Deceptive
Motives (1981). Since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has dedicated himself to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has penned numerous titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and
God (1985–6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical Truth (1991–2) and,
more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
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