Concept

Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality

Overview

theory of reality introduced in Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and expanded in Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Quality (philosophy)
• Philosophy
• Eastern philosophy
• Idea
• Matter
• Rhetoric
• Robert M. Pirsig
• Sanskrit
• Experience
• Aristotle
• Tao
• Value theory
• Sinosphere
• Civil and political rights
• Society
• Intellect
• Reality
• Mahāvākyas
• Phaedrus (dialogue)
• Biology
• Banaras Hindu University
• Evolution
• Pragmatism

Opposing perspectives

• Theory
• Subject and object (philosophy)
• Sophist
• Mahāvākyas
• Philosophical fiction

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• F. S. C. Northrop

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