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Robert M. Pirsig From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2007) Robert M. Pirsig Photograph by Ian Glendinning taken on the eve of the Liverpool conference 7th July 2005 Born September 6 Minneapolis, Minnesota United States Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6 Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is an American writer and philosopher , mainly known as the author of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974), which has sold millions of copies around the world. Contents Life Published Material Metaphysics of Quality Notes ... edit Life By virtue of being a precocious child with an IQ of 170 at age 9, Pirsig skipped several grades. In 1943, Pirsig entered the University of Minnesota to study biochemistry . In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , he described himself as being far from a typical student. He was an idealist of a sort, interested in science as a goal in itself, rather than as a way to establish a career. While doing biochemical lab work, Pirsig was greatly bothered by the fact that there was always more than one workable hypothesis to explain a given phenomenon, and that the number of such hypotheses seemed almost unlimited. He could not think of any way around this, and to him it seemed that the whole scientific endeavor had been brought to a halt, in some sense. This question so distracted him that he was dismissed from the university for poor grades.

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It Happened in History! (Go to It Happened in History Archives Robert M. Pirsig Acknowledgement: Ian Glendinning www.psybertron.org September 6, 1928, witnessed the birth of Robert Maynard Pirsig in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of the cult classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . Pirsig's father, Maynard, taught at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1934 until retiring in 1970. He served as Dean from 1948 to 1955. Pirsig's mother, Harriet Marie Pirsig (Sjobeck), is of Swedish origin. By the age of 9, Pirsig, a precocious child, already possessed an I.Q. of 170. He was promoted over several grades, and his lack of normal socialization, combined with a vexing stammer, made childhood difficult for him. In 1943, Pirsig entered the University of Minnesota, where he struggled for the next two years with his classes. He was expelled in 1945 for failing grades, immaturity, and inattention to his studies. After traveling to Montana where he drifted aimlessly for several months, he joined the Army and served in Korea before returning to school, where he resumed his studies, concentrating on chemistry and philosophy. He received a B.A. in 1950 and enrolled in the University's School of Journalism two years later. He also attended Benares Hindu University in India, where he pursued knowledge about Oriental philosophy, although later references to his studies there cast doubt on how much he gained from the experience.

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Robert M. Pirsig From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other... Robert Maynard Pirsig (born 6 September ) American philosopher and novelist Contents Sourced Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) Afterword (1984) Lila (1991) ... edit Sourced Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality. NPR Interview with Pirsig (1974) Making... an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology. NPR Interview (1974) edit Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ISBN 0553277472 (HC) / ISBN 0060839872 (TPB) What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either. You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other.

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Robert M. Pirsig aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Robert Maynard Pirsig 6. November in Minneapolis Minnesota USA ) ist ein US-amerikanischer Autor . Sein erstes Werk „ Zen und die Kunst ein Motorrad zu warten “ (1974) wurde zum internationalen Bestseller, nachdem es zuvor von 121 Verlagen abgelehnt worden war. Bearbeiten Biographie Pirsigs Eltern sind Maynard und Harriet Marie Pirsig, geborene Sjobeck. Sein Vater unterrichtete zwischen 1930 und 1970 an der University of Minnesota Law school und war dort von 1948 bis 1955 Dekan . Pirsigs Mutter war Schwedin Pirsig f¤llt fr¼h in seiner Kindheit als auŸergew¶hnlich intelligent auf und studiert schon mit 14 Jahren Biochemie an der University of Minnesota . Drei Jahre sp¤ter wird er aufgrund schlechter Noten der Universit¤t verwiesen. Dies ist sp¤ter als erstes Zeichen einer Schizophrenie interpretiert worden. Er reist einige Zeit (bis 1946) mit dem Rucksack durch Montana , tritt in die Armee ein und wird nach Korea versetzt. 1949 wird er aus der Armee entlassen und geht zur¼ck nach Minnesota , um Philosophie zu studieren. Pirsig erlangt den Titel eines

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Robert Pirsig What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent fabulously more coherent when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world.... ...but showing that, of course, was a very big job.... from Lila Rumors have been flying around for quite a while that Pirsig committed suicide. He did not. He is currently staying out of the limelight and working on various projects. Pirsig Links Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance AN INQUIRY INTO VALUES by Robert M. Pirsig Quotes from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Interview from 1974 Pirsig on the Commonplace Book Quality Aloneness Dichotomy ... Value Rigidity Pirsig-related Links "The Ideas of a University" "All About Maintenance" by Carla King The Search for Truth, and its Consequences for Problem Solving by Lloyd Peppard Robert Pirsig Resources Project Green Island Spoken Audio Cooperative Library (which sells recordings of Pirsig)

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This site is being preserved as it was on 17 September 2001 as a memorial to the life and work of Eberhard Wenzel. The public health virtual library is now updated and hosted by the UNSW School of Public Health. Robert M. Pirsig Last updated: 23 December 1998 Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control. Pirsig, Robert M., Lila. An inquiry into morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991, 308 We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good. Pirsig, Robert M., Lila. An inquiry into morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991, 309 Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values. Pirsig, Robert M., Lila. An inquiry into morals. New York (Bantam Books) 1991, 299

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