Welcome to the PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS of

THE WAY OF EVOLUTION

 

 

An essayistic philosophy project by John O’Loughlin

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Dating from 1981, this collection of nine essays is thematically more homogeneous than anything previously written by me in the genre and reflects a more optimistic outlook on evolutionary progress, as something that should culminate in a future paradise having nothing whatsoever to do with the cosmic inception of life.  Art, literature, music, sex, gender, history, technology and religion are the principal themes under consideration here, and they’re generally treated in relation to my philosophy of evolution, which owes not a little, in its origins, to the estimable likes of Nietzsche, Spengler, and Theilhard de Chardin.  As usual for my work of this period, The Way of Evolution ends with a series of maxims, which both summarize and encapsulate its overall philosophy. – John O’Loughlin.

 

 

CONTENTS

THE ESSENTIAL GOAL

MEANS BEFORE ENDS

POST-EGOCENTRIC ART

NATURAL SEX AND ARTIFICIAL SEX

CONFESSIONS OF AN ATHEIST

THE LITERARY REVOLUTION

MUSIC IN AN AGE OF TRANSITION

HISTORICAL ANALOGIES

THE WAY OF EVOLUTION

MAXIMS

 

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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, Oakham, and, following the death and repatriation of his 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), Cross-Purposes (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and Deceptive Motives (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin dedicated himself exclusively to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and has 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), and Philosophical Truth (1991-2). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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