Resumo de Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

Pirsig in his book, tell about father and son trip by motorcycle throughout United States, or on philosophy and Zen? The answer is both. Pirsig thinks that motor-cyclist needs to know basically treatments for his motorcycle, Maintain motorcycle is a model to quality that any one should wish. The concept of quality, Pirsig give it valuable significance. It is situated beyond the two concepts: Classic and romantic, and include them both. Classic is defined as facts, science, intellect, laws and technology.
Romantic defined as inspiration, similarity, intuition, art and emotion. The hero is a person who wakes up from an electrical shock treatment he received after he lost his sanity. The doctors tell him that this treatment ruined his previous personality, and now he has new one. He released from the hospital and begins to search his previous identity, and to reconstruct his fragmental memoirs from the past. During that he develops the philosophy of Pidros, the person that he was before.

The inner conflicts this philosophy created caused him to lose his sanity. Pidros was a person with high intelligent, his way of thinking was pure rational. The scientific method compound from hypotheses, and fallowing experiments that assertors or reject them. Pidros realize that as more he examines hypotheses, his mind created additional new hypotheses. He understood that all the history of the science includes new explanations to old facts. These explanations go and change successively. The time ranges to scientific authenticity inertia stands in the contrary relation to time and intensity of scientific efforts.
As a result when a person tries to reach the scientific, he only draws away from it. The science leads the mankind from single absolute authenticity to numerous relativity authenticities. This entire occurrence is because the mind lost its efficiency. Pidros lost interest in studies and was thrown from the university. He traveled to the east and learned there during ten years the eastern doctrines. By these doctrines while doing meditation, arrive to that the subject and the object, meaning the person and the nature, become one.
But Pidros was not able to catch the philosophy is this in his mind. In the one lecture said a Japanese professor that the entire world is an illusion. Pidros asked if the atomic bombs on Hiroshima Ongsaki are also an illusion, when he got positive answer, he left the class and returned to the west. He acquired a degree in press, worked as reporter and scientific author, got married and had two children but felt need to return to the academy. He found a teaching position in the university and in him himself instructed a course of western philosophy. He read the big philosophers papers but not identified with their things. During his work with the students he began to develop the quality concept, and therefore searched between the philosophers similar ideas to the idea of the quality. Poankra said that the geometry, the space and the time are convenient convention to us and not depending in experimental.
For each experiment could be infinite of right explanations. Inasmuch the scientist has no time to test all of them he must choose one of them. To find the relations between things you need to feel the rules, by sub aware recognition on base of harmonic mathematical beauty. Pidros identified this mathematical beauty as quality according to his definition. Inasmuch that the ancient Greeks deal with basic philosophical terms of west culture and all the western philosophy is built on them, Pidros began to learn about Appleton and Aristotle in order to search at their place the quality concept.
Plato papers were full of discussions with people were called sophists. Those were intelligent that Pidros called them preliminary the humanists. They said that all the scientific ideals are relative. They taught rhetoric, science that Pidros estimated and taught. Socrates and Appleton hated the sophists because they claimed that the truth is not relatively. According to Appleton the truth must be steady. Socrates developed the method of the dialectic, the inquiry of the truth by questions and answers. From the sophists papers nothing left, but only what was wrote on them by Appleton and Appleton. The western philosophy went on Appleton way and Ariosto developed the science according to these ideals. The sophist's doctrine was completely forgotten the west. Pidros believed that actually the sophists deserved more that their doctrine will be passed to the generations after them. In this stage in Pidros brain was created big contradiction between the intellect and between concepts of the quality that spoke on things that above and beyond to transpose. It caused him to go crazy. In excites segment Pirsig describe how Pidros take his 7 years son on the motorcycle to purchases in the city and lost completely the direction. He was forced to ask his son to help him to find the way home. During the book the hero tries to close the fractions between his personality and between Pidros that his memoirs floating as fragmental information. He is afraid all the time from himself to return and lose that his language. In the end of the book he manage to merge the two parts of his personality in which and by this he can give to his son feeling of security as he function as a father.

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