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Pirsig ’ s work in his book Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance analyzes the Rhetoric and Dialectic forms of Philosophies and their implications in the context of modern science and lifestyle.
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Pirsig and work
While doing laboratory work in biochemistry, Pirsig became greatly troubled by the existence of more than one workable hypothesis to explain a given phenomenon, and, indeed, that the number of hypotheses appeared unlimited.
Pirsig is capable of seeing the beauty of technology and feels good about mechanical work, where the goal is " to achieve an inner peace of mind ".
Pirsig and book
* Zen And Now-Mark Richardson's book contains more Pirsig biographical detail.
Highway 175 was mentioned as the next to last highway ridden in the classic book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
In a 1974 interview with National Public Radio, Pirsig stated that the book took him four years to write.
* Pictures taken by Pirsig from the trip made famous in his book
Author Robert M. Pirsig uses the idea both theoretically and literally in his book Lila when the main character / author becomes temporarily lost due to an over reliance on a map, rather than the territory that the map describes.
* Robert Pirsig uses " arete " as a synonym for Quality in his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Pirsig and Zen
* Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7
Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).
Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.
" Pirsig noted in an early interview, that Zen was rejected 121 times before being accepted by William Morrow Publishers.
* Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ( 1973 )
In its introduction, Pirsig explains that, despite its title, " it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice.
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ) is the second philosophical novel by Robert M. Pirsig, who is best known for his classic text, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
* Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, taught creative writing 1959 – 1961.
Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, attended the Center for a period of time.
* Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pirsig and modern
According to Pirsig, such an approach would avoid a great deal of frustration and dissatisfaction common to modern life.
Lila is an important idea in the traditional worship of Krishna ( as prankster ) and Shiva ( as dancer ), and has been used by modern writers like Stephen Nachmanovitch, Fritjof Capra, Alan Watts and Robert M. Pirsig.
Pirsig and .
Modern philosophers who appeal to process rather than substance include Heidegger, Charles Peirce, Alfred North Whitehead, Robert M. Pirsig, Charles Hartshorne, Arran Gare and Nicholas Rescher.
Pirsig was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Maynard Pirsig and Harriet Marie Sjobeck, and is of German and Swedish descent.
The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970.
of 170 at age 9, Robert Pirsig skipped several grades and was enrolled at the Blake School in Minneapolis.
Pirsig was granted a high school diploma in May 1943, and entered the University of Minnesota to study biochemistry that autumn.
Pirsig enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 and was stationed in South Korea until 1948.
Pirsig suffered a nervous breakdown and spent time in and out of psychiatric hospitals between 1961 and 1963.
Pirsig has traveled around the Atlantic Ocean by boat, and has resided in Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, England and in various places around the United States since 1980.
Robert Pirsig married Nancy Ann James on May 10, 1954.
Pirsig also tries to combine Western and Eastern philosophy.
In 1974, Pirsig was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to allow him to write a follow-up, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ), in which he develops a value-based metaphysics, called Metaphysics of Quality, to replace the subject-object view of reality.
* Pirsig bio from the American Society of Authors and Writers.
* Robert M. Pirsig & Quality
* NPR interviews with Pirsig: Audio: 1974 and Audio: 1992.
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The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".
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