All 3 Uses of
usurp
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Phaedrus' mind races on and on and then on further, seeing now at last a kind of evil thing, an evil deeply entrenched in himself, which pretends to try to understand love and beauty and truth and wisdom but whose real purpose is never to understand them, whose real purpose is always to usurp them and enthrone itself.
Part 4 *usurp = take control from them
- Dialectic...the usurper.†
Part 4usurper = one who seizes or takes control without authority
- But in his attempt to unite the Good and the True by making the Good the highest Idea of all, Plato is nevertheless usurping areté's place with dialectically determined truth.†
Part 4usurping = seizing or taking control without authority
Definition:
seize or take control without authority