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Original Title:	Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
ISBN:	0553299611 (ISBN13: 9780553299618)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Phaedrus #2
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1992)

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus #2) Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

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Title	:	Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus #2)
Author	:	Robert M. Pirsig
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1992 by Bantam (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Fiction

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In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.

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Lila is Zens sequel.* In Zen, a heavy philosophical work, Pirsig was frustrated with a Western philosophical paradigm that didnt match up with the way that Pirsig saw reality. In Lila, Pirsig relays that his time in a mental institution was due to his struggle to see the world in his particular way. His insanity was philosophical deviance, not social. He, Phaedrus, was the sophist trying to see reality straight up, within a Western perspective that either engaged in mystery (Plato) or emphasized

Quality cant be defined.This is what Robert Pirsig concludes in his first book, Zen And the Art of Motorcycle maintenance.Quality cant be defined because definitions are products of rigid, formal thinking and Quality is recognized by a non thinking process.In other words, Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.In other, other words, Quality cant be defined because it precedes definition.Pirsig got fired from his job, lost his wife, and went

I haven't read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but from what I understand, Pirsig spends the entire book arriving at the notion of Quality. In Lila, he expands this into a metaphysical framework, which has since come to be called the Metaphysics of Quality ([http://moq.org]). It's more of a philosophical treatise than a novel, and the MoQ is an interesting and appealing framework. I may actually not get around to reading ZMM, but Lila stands well on its own.

It took me a long time to read this book, and I'm not sure how much these disparate readings affected my overall impression of the book. Pirsig doesn't have a narrative structure, he wanders. And these wanderings tend to circle back around and all tie in to a greater point or idea he's trying to get to the root of. Leaving the book for days or weeks at a time makes it hard to follow that strand and keep a sense of how the ideas you're reading about tie into the overall purpose of the book. Zen

1) The story is compelling. Post post midlife crisis man meets younger voluptuous woman. They travel down the river together. The convention is quite cheap. But he never saves her or she him and neither victimizes the other either. That's good. It's not really sensual (except for one scene). And the (self) portrait of the narrator is absolutely unsparing as is his portrait of the girl. She's not a waif or a femme fatale, but a complicated damaged person and him too. 2) The philosophy is

In societies that criminalize rather than attempt to understand mental illness, artists and philosophers may be the first to have the guts to discuss the topic 'publicly' or sympathetically. Such societies may first approach understanding mental illness through art rather than through education, medicine or philanthropy, let alone helpful 'treatment'. For women w/mental illness, societal support toward a true understanding of mental health may be even slower coming than for men, if a male

This book was a disappointment for me. Pirsig somehow is interested in the world of ideas in a way that I am not, and spent most of Lila further developing the stystematic philosophy that he had begun in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I was actually interested in Lila herself, the woman who forms a kind of backdrop for all these ideas, but she never really came into focus, and I didn't think the author ever took her that seriously. I'm interested in people, not ideas, but Pirsig