Perceptions of Quality

Further Explorations of Robert M. Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality

 
 
 
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Lila's Child is available in hardcover, paperback and e-book versions. There are reviews to read at Amazon.com.
Quality ... what is it? We all "know" what Quality is, and yet it remains undefinable "somethingness" that, try as we might, refuses to be categorized and pigeon-holed in ways we are accustomed to doing in our everyday lives. Why would this be? Robert M. Pirsig has written two books on his pursuit of Quality ... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; An Inquiry into Values and Lila; An Inquiry into Morals. Both books will be cornerstones of essays and book reviews below as I attempt to bring Quality into sharper focus although the premier focus of this site is upon Lila.

Should anyone have any comments or thoughts they'd like to share with me I may be reached here.

Thanks for reading.

Dan Glover

 

Lila and Lila's Child

Index and Study Guide for Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
Lila's Child; An Inquiry Into Quality

Short Stories

Short Stories ~ Fiction ~
Reviews
The Philosophy of Niels Bohr; The Framework of Complementarity by Henry J. Folse
Subject Object Logic as Quality's Intellect
Concepts of Evolution and the Meaning of Life; Different Viewpoints on Evolution
Essays on Quality
Quality is a Good Dog: Robert M. Pirsig and Carlos Castaneda Compared
Force of Value in the Metaphysics of Quality:  Julian Jaynes & Value Force in the MOQ
Pragmatism, Precession and Metaphysics of Quality: James, Fuller and Pirsig Compared
Two Riders Approaching: On Blake & Good and Evil in Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality 
Sight Unseen: Evolutionary Concepts in Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality 
A Glass Bead Game: A MOQ Variant on Hermann Hesse's Game
Quality of Compassion
Ayurveda & the Metaphysics of Quality
Alternative MOQ Model


Other Quality Sites


Lithien's Labyrinth - Poetry and Literature Links
Quantonics Discussion Group 
The Observer Web - Autopoiesis Links
MOQ Discussion Forum
Mostly Physics

Science Links

Back From Chaos
699 Online Papers Concerning Consciousness
Up-to-Date News Releases by Research Institutions and Scientific Organizations
Complexity, Complex Systems & Chaos Theory
Evolutionary Psychology
Search for Animal Inventors
Leave it to the labs? Quality Defined
R. Buckminster Fuller References

Ethics and Values Links


 J. Krishnamurti
Essays on Ethics
Putnam's Values
The Value Structure of Action
Chaim Perelman
U.G.Krishnamurti

Language Origins & Structure

Proto-Language Homepage
Gestural Origins of Language
What is Linguistics?

Philosophy Links


The Pre-Socratics; Being, Not-Being and Becoming
The Value of Knowledge: A Miniature Library of Philosophy
Alfred North Whitehead
Classics at the Online Literature Library
Charles Sanders Peirce
Metaphysical Review; Essays on the Foundations of Physics

Alternative Metaphysics and Ideas

Holoscience; New Millenium Science
The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies
Generic Principles of Consciousness
Humanist Library - Books, Essays and Reviews in Humanist Metaphysics
Cosmotheism
Truth, Coherence and Correspondence in the Metaphysics of F.H. Bradley
A Different Point of View by John R. Majka
Metaphysics, Multiple Meanings

Special Interest Links

The Psychedelic Library
WorldNetDaily; A Free Press for a Free People
Science Hobbyist
Motorcycle Rights Organizations in the USA -  A.B.A.T.E.
A Book Club for New Authors
Book in Time Service
The EnviroLink Library
Mark Twain's Writings
An Intercourse with Ghosts

Quality and Intelligence

Penetrating Goethe
Foundations of Paraliminal Technology
Uncommonly Difficult IQ Tests
Intelligent Systems and Their Societies
The Emergence of Intelligence
Doom Patrol

Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading

 

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. (Ernest Hemmingway, A Moveable Feast)


 


 
 

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