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In this episode, Eric talks about quality, Quality, the Metaphysics of Quality and a number of philosophical connections to Fuzzy Sets, Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism, Dewey's idea of Aesthetic Experience and Northrop's notion of an undifferentiated aesthetic continuum. 

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Zensylvania's 2022 special Hallowe'en episode is a reading of Edgar Allan Poe's The Imp of the Perverse. Poe is a staple of all things spooky and Hallowe'en spectacular. First published in Graham's Magazine in 1845, it is a special mix of introspective essay, horror story-telling and a kind of confessional struggle toward self-understanding by a narrator. Given our focus (so far) in Zensylvania on a particular work of "philosophical fiction", this Poe story seems very well suited to our studies. I hope you enjoy my reading of this creepy little story.

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In this episode, Eric explores his personal experience of minimalism and traces connections via Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art o Motorcycle Maintenance to several underlying ideological themes that may explain some of contemporary minimalism's design ethos. 

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In this Episode, Eric examines Plato's Phaedrus through the lens of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

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In this episode, Eric reads a translation of Plato's Phaedrus. Essential to an appreciation of Robert's Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality as displayed in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila, Phaedrus provides not only the alter-ego name of Pirsig's narrator, it explores several themes that permeate those books.

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In this episode, Eric examines the newly-published (2022) collection of writing about Quality by Robert Pirsig, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals.

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In this episode, Eric continues to examine Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and the wide variety of sources, meanings and intentions that the author may have had. The chapter leads to a few questions such as: Do you think that life ought to be approached neither fast nor slow...just steadily? Have you ever had the feeling that the various experts you experience in your life are just...uninvolved? But it also introduces an ominous and interesting theme of spectators.

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In the episode, Eric begins an exploration of fuzzy logic as a day-to-day tool for living and making decisions. Along the way, there are many references to Robert Pirsig's  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 

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In Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead stated that all of (European Classical) philosophy may be considered a series of footnotes to Plato. Meanwhile, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Plato, Aristotle and European Classical philosophy are the targets for criticism and challenge. We're taking Motorcycle Zen all the way back to some of its earliest (written) roots to examine one of western philosophy's most ironic stories - the trial of Socrates! We're going to take a fresh look from the 2020's with as little outside influence as we can muster. And yes, we will also work in a bit of motorcycle talk. So what kind of motorcycle do you think Socrates would ride? What about Plato? In this episode, Eric reflects on Plato's The Apology of Socrates.  You can find text versions of Zensylvania essays and stories at www.zensylvania.com Do you have thoughts to share? Leave a voice message for the Zensylvania Podcast and we may include it in this or a future episode: https://anchor.fm/zensylvania/message Thank you for visiting Zensylvania: It's a State of Mind

In this episode, Eric reads Benjamin Jowett's 1877 translation of  The Apology of Socrates by Plato.

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