Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
 

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

by Robert M. Pirsig

The author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance examines life's essential issues as he recounts the journey down the Hudson River in a sailboat of his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus. Reprint. (read review)

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arunb98
  • Rated 4 stars

A must read!! Basically, the author has put forward patterns and a framework for a better analysis and understanding of whats happening around us. Everything that the author tries to analyze seems to fit nice and tight into the framework that hes painstakingly structured. A re-read seems mandatory to me(also because some ideas were beyond my understanding), but the more interesting thing would be to see how the happenings around us fit into the patters that he expounds upon.
A very...

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weradi
  • Rated 2 stars

I think Pirsig should stick to philosophizing over motorcycle trips instead of attempting to do so with fiction and a mentally unstable "pickup".

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  • Rated 4.2 stars
 

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  • peter l

    peter l said:

    It is very interesting analyzing dynamic and static quality. Pirsig is right and diagnosing religions weakness in hinging its knowledge on dynamic principals that can not be challenged. But I am a christian, but am dynamic in my application of the bible. I believe that is the way it was intended. But Christians have just downplayed the old law and started strictly binding themselves to the new law (the new testement).

    sorry this is off topic from the book, but this is what has been swirling around my mind. If anyone would like to talk about it let me know.

    posted Saturday, June 14 2008
  • Rajath S

    rajath s said:

    The ultimate sequel!! :) *****

    posted Wednesday, January 16 2008
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