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Robert Maynard Pirsig (/ ˈ p ɜːr s ɪ ɡ /; September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher.He is the author of the philosophical books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his ...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is a book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in 1974. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography and the first of Pirsig's texts in which he discusses his concept of Quality. [2] The title is an apparent play on the title of the 1948 book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen ...
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991) is the second philosophical novel by Robert M. Pirsig, who is best known for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Lila: An Inquiry into Morals was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. [1]
Pirsig defines "static quality" patterns as everything which can be defined. Everything found in a dictionary, for instance, is a static quality pattern. Pirsig then divides static quality into inorganic, biological, social, and intellectual patterns, in ascending order of morality (based on evolutionary order).
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Pirsig is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Detlef Pirsig (1945–2019), German football player; Maynard Pirsig (1902–1997), American legal scholar and academic; Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017), Maynard's son, American writer and philosopher, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION MINNEAPOLIS 14 INSTITUTE OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE June 14,1961 To Whom it May Concern: Subject: Indices of the Intellectual Capacity of Robert M. Pirsig Mr. Pirsig was a subject in one of the institute’s longiudinal research projects and was extensively evaluated as a preschool, elementary ...