Lila by Robert M. Pirsig
An Inquiry into Morals
A reflective narrator, haunted by a past philosophical obsession, takes a houseboat journey with Lila, a volatile woman whose behavior and legal troubles prompt him to develop and defend a 'Metaphysics of Quality' that separates creative, dynamic value from the static patterns that structure life; using this framework—with its layered categories of inorganic, biological, social, and intellectual patterns—he interrogates sanity, identity, morality, and the failures of purely analytical thought, arguing for a view of reality grounded in lived value and the interplay between change and order.
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- 1991
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- American
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- English
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