| Title: | AN ANALYSIS OF THE INQUIRY INTO VALUES IN ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE |
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| Authors: | ID Marinšek, Petra (Author)
ID Kennedy, Victor (Mentor) More about this mentor...  |
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| Files: |  UNI_Marinsek_Petra_2014.pdf (703,38 KB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Undergraduate thesis |
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| Typology: | 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | It is rare to come across a novel so complex where language moves in waves from pure poetry to cold hard scientific talk, then again carries the reader into a small hot town feeling the fatigue connected to the Socratic dialogues and Plato’s rich imagery, all serving no other purpose, but constantly keeping the reader alert and gently preparing his mind for another philosophical lecture. This carefully planned construction is fundamental for tearing down the Aristotelian cornerstones of modern life and returning the reader’s mind to the times when answers were sought in the wind and Ideas resided in the unknown. Quality, as an event that causes subject and object, would otherwise again be rejected and misunderstood, which poses the threat of the narrator, Phaedrus, being admitted to the mental asylum once more. This time around the message comes through with the use of three safety nets in the form of three levels of understanding of the plot. It is up to the reader’s ability whether to settle for the obvious mental patient scenario, uncover the curtain to see the distrustful Hamlet playing with everyone, or recognize the true philosopher’s lecture on reality filled with concrete guidance on how to see errors and mistakes in our everyday life. They lead to a gumption trap that first needs to be recognised and then, following the example of Stoics, the narrator provides advice and solutions how to free ourselves from it. Making my way through the jungle of my mind in search of the source of reality, I found my own fountain of life and death drawn on a scallop shell by listening to the wind and looking for the answer in Nature. The scallop shell is like our universe, filled with pearl coating of Good and on the surface its lines of life and death like sunrays rise to aretê and realisation, then descending to primary entities that build all that exists. The unifying force behind this movement also resides in everything that it creates, filling a thing with mind that connects its material body to all the other bodies there are. |
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| Keywords: | Quality, Good, reality, Plato, Aristotle, gumption trap |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [P. Marinšek] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2014 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-44687 |
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| UDC: | 821.111:1(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 20692744 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:0CSKTNAJ |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 15.07.2014 |
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| Views: | 2040 |
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| Downloads: | 151 |
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| Categories: | FF
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