The Triumph of Being

No sooner had John O'Loughlin completed the so-called 'Terminological Dictionary of Social Transcendentalism' (1998-9) than a seismic shift occurred in his thinking with regard not only to the subject of morality, about which he had theorized on a somewhat different basis in the past, but also - and more importantly - with regard to such concepts as 'superman', 'supermasculine', 'supernatural', and so on, which, in long-standing deference to Nietzsche, he had previously taken too much for granted. Now, with a deeper concept of nature, he was for the first time in a position to ‘revaluate’ (re-evaluate) such terms and effectively displace them from what had been a metaphysical perch, setting-up a new evaluation for that which sensibly appertains to the divine. The result, not surprisingly, may come as a shock to those who had supposed him too set in a Nietzschean mould, to be able to significantly differ from that way of thinking.