Part one of term paper
Phaedrus split human understanding into two classes: classical and romantic understanding. He defined classical understanding as mechanical, interested only in the underlying form of the image. It works with reason and by laws. He calls it “straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned.” It’s such ...

Part two of term paper
... although Pirsig says it isn’t necessary. Gender differences don’t divide these two classes as they once did in European culture. Pirsig seems to think motorcycle maintenance and repair is so masculine that “women never go near it.” Granted, this book was written in ‘74, (I think it’s set earlier than that) but ask the women who work in this industry if they care that it isn’t romantic. I believe I have mostly romantic understanding under this lid of mine. I tend to think with ...