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PHAEDRUS_OF_EMERSON

                                            October 20, 2009


  Emerson, "Plato, or, the Philosopher":

  "All his thought has this ascension; in
  Phaedrus, teaching that beauty is the most
  lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and           Taking that as a
  shedding desire and confidence through the            description of
  universe wherever it enters, and it enters in         Phaedrus, it
  some degree into all things:-- but that there         makes more sense
  is another, which is as much more beautiful           that the protagonist
  than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely,          of "Zen and the Art
  wisdom, which our wonderful organ of sight            of Motorcycle
  cannot reach unto, but which, could it be             Maintenance" would
  seen, would ravish us with its perfect                use it as his name.
  reality.  He has the same regard to it as the
  source of excellence in works of art."                    Perhaps Pirsig
                                                            was more of
     -- p.312,313, Viking Portable ed.                      a Platonist than
                                                            a student of
                                                            Plato?
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                                                            PHAEDRUS


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