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FLOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS is volume two of John O'Loughlin's 'collected dialogues', with material culled from four prior collections dating from 1982-4 and continuing in the vein of its predecessor, 'Lopsided Conversations', if with a more determined ideological emphasis which takes this volume to an entirely new region of the mind.
The ironically entitled 'Flopsided Conversations' is intended as a kind of sequel to 'Lopsided Conversations' (1976-82), insofar as that was volume one and this is volume two of John O'Loughlin's 'collected dialogues' and, like its predecessor, it reflects a concern with metaphysical speculation and religious instruction that overlaps with the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism in a number of respects, being a comparatively early manifestation of the philosophy that was to become increasingly metaphysical, and therefore aphoristic, in the course of time. This second volume is derived from four prior publications, starting with 'Future Transformations' and progressing, via 'Post-Atomic Perspectives' and 'The Will to Truth', to 'Social Transcendentalism', the author's first stated articulation of the philosophy that was to preoccupy him long after hr had abandoned these dialogues, dating from 1982-4, for more elevated structures with which to express his developing concern with metaphysics and all things godly. No such structures, meaning principally aphorisms and maxims, are discernible here, though; but this is nevertheless beyond the material contained in the aforementioned 'Lopsided Conversations', including the aphoristic appendix, and should only be broached after one has sufficiently familiarized oneself with that to wish to proceed deeper into the roots of the philosophy in question, and therefore acquire the foundations with which to climb beyond dialogues to the aphoristic heights of metaphysics proper.
Isaac Blois argues that Paul's focus in Philippians on the mutual boasting shared between himself and his converts draws on the mutual boasting shared between Israel and her covenant God, as apparent in both Deuteronomy and Isaiah. Using the appearance of this central theme in the pivotal passages of Phil 1:25-26 and 2:14-16 as his focus, Blois stresses the integral relation between mutual boasting and the role that it plays in Paul's exhortations to the Philippian believers, exploring its backdrop in both the biblical tradition and the cultures surrounding them. Blois demonstrates how the mutual boasting that Paul shares with his beloved community is culturally appropriate; the sharing of honor among friends and family was common in antiquity, as seen through the epistolary writing of prominent Roman authors such as Cicero, Seneca, and Fronto. In light of the Scriptural and cultural basis for this motif of shared boasting, Blois argues that the apostle is able to deploy the motif in order to motivate an appropriate response from his audience in the letter. Focusing on the prominence of mutual honor and its use for motivation in Philippians 1 and 2, Blois offers a fresh perspective on the exhortative function of the eschatological boasting that is to exist between Paul and his congregation on the day of Christ.