Whats emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It cant be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones whore solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning square rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what Im trying to say is that the solution to the problem isnt that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that its capable of coming up with a solution.
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Robert M. Pirsig was a 20th-century American writer and philosopher. Robert Maynard Pirsig 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(1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig. Read more on Wikipedia →
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