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EPISODE · Feb 3, 2012 · 31 MIN

PREMIUM-Episode 50: Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

On Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical, autobiographical novel from 1974. What's the relationship between science and values? Pirsig thinks that modern rationality, by insisting on the fundamental distinction between objects (matter) and subjects (people), labels value judgments as irrational. Society therefore largely ignores aesthetic considerations in the buildings and machines that litter our landscape. With guest David Buchanan. Get the full discussion at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

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