All 24 Uses of
ancient Greece
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- "The ancient Greeks," I say, "who were the inventors of classical reason, knew better than to use it exclusively to foretell the future.†
Part 2ancient Greeks = the Greeks who provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- He was an ancient Greek — a rhetorician — a 'composition major' of his time.†
Part 2ancient Greek = relating to the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- The rhetoricians of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western world.†
Part 2 *ancient Greece = the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- Zero, originally a Hindu number, was introduced to the West by the Arabs during the Middle Ages and was unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.†
Part 3ancient Greeks = the Greeks who provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them.†
Part 3
- He thought he already knew about the general area they led to, ancient Greece, but now he wondered if he had overlooked something there.†
Part 4ancient Greece = the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- Ancient Greece.†
Part 4
- A second path to ancient Greece was indicated by the sudden way the whole question, What is quality?†
Part 4
- The ancient Greeks invented it and, in so doing, put their permanent stamp on it.†
Part 4ancient Greeks = the Greeks who provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- The examining committee included a professor of English, a professor of philosophy, a professor of Chinese, and the Chairman, who was a professor of ancient Greek!†
Part 4ancient Greek = relating to the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- Thus, in cultures whose ancestry includes ancient Greece, one invariably finds a strong subject-object differentiation because the grammar of the old Greek mythos presumed a sharp natural division of subjects and predicates.†
Part 4ancient Greece = the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- And in Aristotle and the ancient Greeks he believed he had found the villains who had so shaped the mythos as to cause us to accept this insanity as reality.†
Part 4ancient Greeks = the Greeks who provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality, and he was sure he would find the cause of its not being so back among the ancient Greeks, whose mythos had endowed our culture with the tendency underlying all the evil of our technology, the tendency to do what is "reasonable" even when it isn't any good.†
Part 4
- These were the famous teachers of "wisdom," the Sophists of ancient Greece.†
Part 4ancient Greece = the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- His search for it takes him through a number of histories of ancient Greece, which as usual he reads detective style, looking only for facts that may help him and discarding all those that don't fit.†
Part 4
- Can the dharma of the Hindus and the "virtue" of the ancient Greeks be identical?†
Part 4ancient Greeks = the Greeks who provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- Kitto had more to say about this areté of the ancient Greeks.†
Part 4
- That would make us like those liars and cheats and defilers of ancient Greece, the Sophists...remember them?†
Part 4ancient Greece = the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- And today in those few Universities that bother to teach classic ethics anymore, students, following the lead of Aristotle and Plato, endlessly play around with the question that in ancient Greece never needed to be asked: "What is the Good?†
Part 4
- The tension between ancient Greek thought and emotion is described elsewhere as basic to Greek makeup and culture.†
Part 4ancient Greek = relating to the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece.†
Part 4ancient Greece = the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek perspectives and their meaning but there is one perspective it misses.†
Part Aft.ancient Greek = relating to the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
- Ten years after the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the Ancient Greek perspective is certainly appropriate.†
Part Aft.
- The receding Ancient Greek perspective of the past ten years has a very dark side: Chris is dead.†
Part Aft.