Part IV: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 27 thru 32.  

Here Could Be Platform Places For Statues Of Three Early “Famous Teachers of ‘Wisdom’!
[Phaedrus then asks:]
… “Can the dharma of the Hindus and the "virtue" of the ancient Greeks be identical?
…Then Phædrus feels a tugging to read the passage again, and he does so and then—what’s this?! . .
…"That which we translate ‘virtue ‘ but is in Greek ‘excellence." .
…Lightning hits! .. Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine "virtue." But areté Excellence. Dharma! Before the Church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and matter. Before dialectic itself.
…Quality had been absolute. Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric. He has been doing it right all along.


Photo, Central Maintenance Building, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Since these roof sheltered recessed platforms do not have any statues of the saints, I hereby propose that these places of honor should have statues of the Sophists of Ancient Greece! They taught Quality through …. Rhetoric!
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(Photo = 100-0081cz4.0 ...... ZMM Page = 340 ...... WayPt = -034 0590 ft)


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