Robert M. Pirsig

...and also attended Ram Lila celebrations in India, the name of the female character, Lila, is accidental. "I asked Pirsig ... he said it was like 'lilaq,' and that, 'it was the unsubtlety of the lilac odour and the hardiness of the bush...

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is the first of Robert M. Pirsig's texts in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality . The 1974 book describes, in first person, a 17-day motorcycle journey across the...

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...of Law, where he remained until his final retirement in 1993. Because he was a precocious child, with an I.Q. of 170 at age 9, Robert Pirsig skipped several grades and was enrolled at Blake School . In 1943, Pirsig entered the University of...

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...integration of all that life's panoply presents. - L.MichaelM Your thesis and conclusions map very closely with those of Robert Pirsig regarding morality (and value) in the relationship between our biological and social (and intellectual)...

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It's that kind of pressure that prevented J.D. Salinger from writing a follow-on to The Catcher in the Rye. It's also why Robert Pirsig took thirty years after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to write his second book. And...

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...for one to pump and another to drink. I'm on my own today. Those Zen riders - they're why I'm here. Robert Pirsig and his 11-year-old son, Chris, on Pirsig's old 28-horsepower, 305cc Honda Superhawk CB77, and Pirsig's friends John and...

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...Value of Work," a subtle play on the 1974 classic, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values." Robert M. Pirsig's book was a sprawling philosophical search into what "quality" and "the good" meant and tracked Pirsig's...

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...mechanical inspiration is rooted in a philosophical outlook captured by a 1974 book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. The book explores the relationship between art and manufacturing and the idea of quality, or,...

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...linked. Pirsig uses the notion of "quality" to re-unify the two terms using the Metaphysics of Quality. Pirsig, Robert "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals" Pirsig, Robert "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values"

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On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (1974) was the rare quest narrative in which two American males headed west in search of enlightenment and...

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