The Way of Evolution

Welcome to the PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS of

THE WAY OF EVOLUTION

An essayistic philosophy project by John O’Loughlin

Hyperlinks to the files of which follow the brief introduction below:-

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.

00_Contents.htm

01_The_Essential_Goal.htm

02_Means_Before_Ends.htm

03_Post-Egocentric_Art.htm

04_Natural_Sex_and_Artifical_Sex.htm

05_Confessions_of_an_Atheist.htm

06_The_Literary_Revolution.htm

07_Music_in_an_Age_of_Transition.htm

08_Historical_Analogies.htm

09_The_Way_of_Evolution.htm

10_Maxims.htm