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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 ...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) ISBN 0-06-095832-4; Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991) ISBN 0-553-29961-1; Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by R. DiSanto and T. J. Steele (1990) ISBN 0-688-06069-2 "Lila's Child: An Inquiry into Quality (2002) OCLC 59259846
Can't shed any light on the real source of inspiration, but a quick amazon search indicates that only 'zen the art of falling in love', 'zen in the art of archery' and 'zen in the art of flower arranging' actualy appear to pre-date the publication of z&taomm, although 'falling in love' is the only one with 'and the art' as opposed to 'in the ...
Phaedrus, a dialogue of Plato; Phaedrus (play), a 3rd-century BCE comedic play by Alexis (poet) Phaedrus, a character in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; A work by Cy Twombly; Phaedrus, Johnathan, a character in the Reckoners novels by Brandon Sanderson.
The Phaedrus (/ ˈ f iː d r ə s /; Ancient Greek: Φαῖδρος, romanized: Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, about the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium. [1]
Throughout his book, Pirsig refers to his old self—the one before electroshock destroyed his personality—as Phædrus, to indicate this complete break of self.It is fair to say that the above adaptation presents Phædrus' view; Pirsig differs.
The burgeoning group officially incorporated as the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in December 1973, and by May 1975 had raised enough funds (aided partially by royalties from Robert Pirsig's book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) to purchase the white stucco house at 3343 East Bde Maka Ska Parkway, where MZMC still resides today ...
The word "madness" in the second speech of Socrates is synonym with "inspiration". I have made a search for "divine inspiration in Phaedrus" in Google and have got 36.800 returns. I take Phaedrus, Ion, and the lure of inspiration by Barry Dixon, in the Internet Journal of the International Plato Society. In the discussion the term "inspiration ...