All 4 Uses of
despise
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Phaedrus despised this park without knowing exactly why...because he hadn't discovered it himself, perhaps, but probably not.†
Part 2 *despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
- When you are trained to despise "just what you like" then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others...a good slave.†
Part 3despise = dislike strongly and look down upon
- This contempt for rhetoric, combined with Aristotle's own atrocious quality of rhetoric, so completely alienated Phaedrus he couldn't read anything Aristotle said without seeking ways to despise it and attack it.†
Part 4
- The next day he is at the library waiting for it to open and when it does he begins to read furiously, back behind Plato for the first time, into what little is known of those rhetoricians he so despised.†
Part 4despised = disliked strongly and looked down upon
Definition:
to dislike strongly and to look down upon with disrespect