Lamb and Anti-Lion

Basing its thematic structure on John O Loughlin s previous work, 'Yang and Anti-Yin' (2004-5), this volume of aphoristic philosophy delves deeper into noumenal sensibility and its full gender and ideological implications, taking the biblical metaphors of lamb and lion to their ultimate conclusions in what becomes an exact parallel to the yang and anti-yin of our metaphysical and antimetachemical elemental positions. But these elements are also investigated in greater detail, and provide ample scope for the enhancement or clarification of certain terms, including those with other elemental affinities than that with which we are chiefly concerned here. Thus a broadening-out from the central and core position of Mr. O Loughlin s philosophy is once again to the fore, and other positions are accordingly re-evaluated and modified in the light of his principal contentions. Also modified, in this respect, are theories concerning life-after-death, which are now shown in a new light, not least in relation to his philosophy of history and the subdivisions which accrue to each of what he regards as the three principal stages of civilization. We think this is one of the factors which in this text has made it possible for the author to be tougher on the Catholic Church than ever before, and to demonstrate, logically and rationally, that the destiny of globalization can only be independent of both Western and Eastern traditions, since for him the full-flowering of noumenal sensibility is beyond the scope of any tradition rooted in its noumenal antithesis, no matter how obliquely. A Centretruths editorial.