Analiza presoje vrednot v Zen and art of motorcycle maintenance

diplomsko delo

Petra Marinšek (Author), Victor Kennedy (Mentor), Bojan Borstner (Co-mentor)

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.

Keywords

Aristotel;Platon;kakovost;realnost;diplomska dela;

Data

Language:	Slovenian
Year of publishing:	2014
Typology:	2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
Organization:	UM FF - Faculty of Arts
Publisher:	[P. Marinšek]
UDC:	821.111:1(043.2)
COBISS:	20692744
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Secondary language:	English
Secondary title:	ǂAn ǂanalysis of the inquiry into values in Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Secondary abstract:	Redki so romani s tako kompleksnim jezikom, ki se preliva iz čiste poezije v hladen trd znanstveni jezik in nato ponese bralca nazaj v majhno vroče mesto, kjer začuti izčrpanost, ki je na nekakšen način povezana s Sokratovim dialogom in bogatimi Platonovimi prispodobami vse zato, da nenehno ohranja bralčevo pozornost in nežno pripravlja njegov um na naslednjo filozofsko predavanje. Ta premišljen konstrukt je osnovnega pomena za podrtje Aristotelovih temeljev in vrnitev bralčevega uma nazaj v čase, ko se je odgovore iskalo v vetru ter ko so Ideje prebivale v neznanem. Drugače bi bila Kakovost kot dogodek, ki je vzrok za nastanek subjekta in objekta, ponovno zavrnjena in nerazumljena, kar pa predstavlja grožnjo ponovne namestitve v psihiatrično ustanovo. Tokrat bo bistvo posredovano s pomočjo treh zaščitnih mrež, treh nivojev razumevanja zgodbe. Bralčeva sposobnost določa ali se bo sprijaznil z vsem očitno zgodbo o mentalnem bolniku ali bo odstrl zaveso in se soočil z zavedajočim Hamletom, ki se igra z vsemi ali pa bo le prepoznal govor resničnega filozofa pred seboj, v katerem mu ta daje konkretne napotke kako prepoznati napake in zmote vsakdanjega življenja. Le-te vodijo v "gumption trap", v past, katero je potrebno najprej prepoznati in po zgledu stoikov, so nam potem podani nasveti in rešitve, kako se iz nje rešiti. Med prebijanje skozi džunglo lasnega uma v iskanju izvora realnosti sem našla fontano življenja in smrti narisano na pokrovači, medtem ko sem prisluhnila vetru in iskala odgovor v Naravi. Pokrovača je naše vesolje v malem. Napolnjena je s bisernim plaščem Dobrega, na površini pa se njene linije življenja in smrti kot sončni žarki vzdigujejo proti aretê in uresničenju ter se nato spustijo do primarnih entitet, gradnikov vsega kar obstaja. Združujoča sila za tem gibanjem prebiva v vsem kar ustvari. Stvari napolni z umom, ki nato poveže vsako telo z vsakim drugim.
Secondary keywords:	Kvaliteta;Dobro;realnost;Platon;Aristotel;gumption trap;
URN:	URN:SI:UM:
Type (COBISS):	Undergraduate thesis
Thesis comment:	Univ. v Mariboru, Filozofska fak., Oddelek za anglistiko in amerikanistiko
Pages:	47 f.
ID:	8729250