Aristotle’s Dualistic Reason Is No Doubt Taught Here.

…The Humanities and Social Sciences Classroom Building At The University of South Carolina Aiken.

…The Narrator next covers, in two pages, Phaedrus’s objections to Aristotle. He finishes this portion of the Chautauqua with following sentences =>
...“[Phaedtus] …. saw [Aristotle]as a prototype for the many millions of self-satisfied and truly ignorant teachers throughout history who have smugly and callously killed the creative spirit of their students with this dumb ritual of analysis, this blind, rote, eternal naming of things. Walk into any of a hundred thousand classrooms today and hear the teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish "principles" and study "methods" and what you will hear is the ghost of Aristotle speaking down through the centuries—the desiccating lifeless voice of dualistic reason.“ (Cont. Next)

Photo At Classroom Building, University of South Carolina at Aiken, Aiken, SC. I can assure you that the Narrator is exactly correct about his “teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish "principles" and study "methods".
…Aristotle was, no doubt, the one that started it all. Of course, this classification system seems to be what works well for sciences.
…However, it is applied all too often in areas where inappropriate, destructive, and to the exclusion of other workable methods. This is also true for "principles" and study "methods". These concerns are discussed extensively various places in ZMM.
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The University of Chicago’s Hospital Is Discerned Beyond The Grungy Windows.

…Phaedrus’s University of Chicago Classroom. Possibility Number One.

… “The sessions on Aristotle were round an enormous wooden round table in a dreary room across the street from a hospital, where the late-afternoon sun from over the hospital roof hardly penetrated the window dirt and polluted city air beyond. Wan and pale and depressing. ” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. As near as I could determine, from the Campus Layout, Cobb Hall is best choice as The University of Chicago building “across the street from a hospital.”
…Also, Mr. Pirsig in a letter to me stated that Cobb Lecture Hall is Phaedrus’s Classroom Building.
…I walked the hallways of Cobb and found that none of the classrooms now have round tables. They have evidently been replaced by rectangular tables formed into a larger open square as you see here and in my other photos of Cobb Lecture Hall.
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A Large Round Table With Somewhat of a Crack In It.

“During the middle of the hour he noticed that this enormous table had a huge crack that ran right across it near the middle. It looked as though it had been there for years, but that no one had thought to repair it. Too busy, no doubt, with more important things. At the end of the hour he finally asked, "May questions about Aristotle’s rhetoric be asked?"
…"If you have read the material," he was told. He noticed in the eye of the Professor of Philosophy the same set he had seen the first day of registration. He took warning from it that he had better read the material very thoroughly, and did so.” (Cont. Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. I was not able to find any round tables in Cobb Lecture Hall, Phaedrus’s Classroom Building.
…However, I did find this /\ Above /\ Photo, and four other examples of huge round tables in the neighboring Social Science Research Building.
…In the above table, you must look closely to see the crack in the reflected green illumination. However, as you can see, this table’s crack is not as bad as that described by the Narrator.
…As viewed by the Narrator (and Phaedrus), the “huge crack“ symbolizes (Metaphoric Bridge Connection) serious problems in the system of Aristotle, AND corresponding serious problems in the way philosophy was being taught at U. Chicago.
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Dangerous Traffic Hazards, Made Worse By Rain, Require Careful Attention.

…This, Metaphoric Bridge Connection, Corresponds To What Phaedrus Had To Do At The University of Chicago.

…“The rain comes down more heavily now and we stop to snap on the face mask to the helmet. Then we go again at moderate speed. I watch for chuckholes, sand and grease slicks.” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

East edge of Crescent City, CA. In rain especially, The Narrator must watch for very real road hazards.
…Similarly, Metaphoric Bridge Connection, these echo/symbolize the very real hazards Phaedrus must watch for at The University of Chicago!
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Phaedrus’s Classroom Building. A View of Cobb Hall From The Plaza In Front of the University of Chicago Medical Center.

…This Medical Center Is Probably What The Narrator Called “The Hospital”.

…“The next week Phædrus had read the material and was prepared to take apart the statement that rhetoric is an art because it can be reduced to a rational system of order. By this criterion General Motors produced pure art, whereas Picasso did not. If there were deeper meanings to Aristotle than met the eye this would be as good a place as any to make them visible. . But the question never got raised. Phædrus put up his hand to do so, caught a microsecond flash of malice from the teacher’s eye, but then another student said, almost as an interruption, "I think there are some very dubious statements here. ..
…That was all he got out. … ” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

Hospital Entrance Plaza, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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A Closer View of Cobb Lecture Hall, Phaedrus' Classroom Building. Photo Taken From U. Chicago Hospital Entrance Plaza.

[Another student had just raised an objection.] “ [That was all he got out.]
…"Sir, we are not here to learn what you think!" hissed the Professor of Philosophy. Like acid. "We are here to learn what Aristotle thinks!" Straight in the face. "When we wish to learn what you think we will assign a course in the subject!"
…Silence. The student is stunned. So is everyone else. .. But the Professor of Philosophy is not done. He points his finger at the student and demands, "According to Aristotle: What are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed?" .. More silence. The student doesn’t know. "Then you haven’t read it, have you?" ” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

Hospital Entrance Plaza, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

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An Even Closer View of Cobb Lecture Hall, Phaedrus’ Classroom Building. Photo Taken From U. Chicago Hospital Entrance Plaza.

...“And now, with a gleam that indicates he has intended this all along, the Professor of Philosophy swings his finger around and points it at Phædrus.
…"You, sir, what are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed?" .. But Phædrus is prepared. "Forensic, deliberative and epideictic," he answers calmly. .. "What are the epideictic techniques?" .. "The technique of identifying likenesses, the technique of praise, that of encomium and that of amplification." .. "Yaaas—" says the Professor of Philosophy slowly. Then all is silent. . The other students looked shocked. They wonder what has happened. Only Phædrus knows, and perhaps the Professor of Philosophy. An innocent student has caught blows intended for him. [i.e. Phaedrus.] ” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

Hospital Entrance Plaza, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

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A Much, Much Closer View of Cobb Hall, Phaedrus’ Classroom Building. Photo Taken From U. Chicago Hospital Entrance Plaza.

…“Now everyone’s face becomes carefully composed in defense against more of this sort of questioning. The Professor of Philosophy has made a mistake. He’s wasted his disciplinary authority on an innocent student while Phædrus, the guilty one, the hostile one, is still at large. And getting larger and larger. Since he has asked no questions there is now no way to cut him down. And now that he sees how the questions will be answered he’s certainly not about to ask them.” (U. Chicago. Cont. Nnext)

Hospital Entrance Plaza, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

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Cobb Hall Front Door Entrance Lobby.

… A View Straight Up Showing the Stair Landings for the Four Levels Above the First Floor.

…“The innocent student stares down at the table, face red, hands shrouding his eyes. His shame becomes Phædrus’ anger. In all his classes he never once talked to a student like that. So that’s how they teach classics at the University of Chicago. Phædrus knows the Professor of Philosophy now. But the Professor of Philosophy doesn’t know Phædrus.” (Cont. Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Under Gloomy Grey Cloudy Skys, A Google Street View Nicely Shows A Clutter Of Buildings And The ZMM Narrator’s “Sign-Strewn Road”

… It Was Cold “Grey Rainy Skies. When The ZMM Narrator & Chris Experiences This Depressing View, Which Is Typical of Most USA Towns and Cities.

…“The grey rainy skies and sign-strewn road descend to Crescent City, California, …. ” (Cont. Next)

1130 US-101 Highway, Northeast entrance to Crescent City, CA. The Narrator’s “view” of this town, literally, emotionally, and figuratively, is colored, and compounded, by his recall of Phaedrus’ very negative feelings concerning =>
…a) His physical surroundings in Gloomy Chicago,
…b) His very negative views on the teaching method he experienced at the University of Chicago. AND
…c) This is made worse by the Narrator’s remembering of => Phaedrus’ IN-tolerant, huge, negative reaction to the topic of Aristotle...
…d) AND this is made doubly worse by his memories of the brutal treatment of the “The innocent student,” by the University of Chicago Philosophy Professor.
…e) AND an added cause to the ZMM Narrator’s gloom, is the shock of hitting this messy Crescent City road environment ( /\ Above /\ Photo), a mere 12 miles after traveling thru the pristine forest ever since the Orgon-California border, and most especially The Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, Jedediah Smith State Park.

Except For Some Occasional, Very Cold, Coastal Fog (And Occasional Cold, Grey Skies), My Experience While I Was In California, Was Good Warm Summer Weather. This Is Quite Contrary To The Narrator & Chris’s Experience Along The California Coast.
…Although my forthcoming photos will show the changes from sunny warm skies to cold “grey rainy skies.” these photos do not often show the Narrator’s “grey rainy skies.“ This is because I was able to photograph ONLY A FEW scenes that “fit” the Narrator’s gloomy, foggy, rainy scenes.

….Contrary to my experience, the Narrator’s cold, rainy, bad weather, is indeed common along the coastal areas of California. … Cool coastal fog typically forms over the relatively cool Pacific Ocean. … And when this cool coastal fog moves inland, often extending for 20-40 miles, the land is cold, and under the fog there are grey rainy skies“ and no warmth from the sun.

Without The Cold Coastal Ocean Chilled Fog, The California Coast Can Be Very Pleasant, Similar To The Interior Of California, Where The Norm Is Sunshine All Day Every Day, In The Semi-Arid Landscapes.
…. Sometimes during these coastal fog conditions 20-40 miles inland. And on an otherwise sunny day, the penetrating heat from sun, will lift the fog well up off the ground. This condition is then experienced as overcast grey skies, and may be why the ZMM Narrator reports “grey rainy skies“, as they ride into Crescent City.

While Driving The California Coast FURTHER SOUTH, I DID Experience The Full Range Of Above Mentioned Fog Conditions, To Varying Degrees.
… …Pay attention, and in my forthcoming photos you will see this range of fog conditions .AND see what the ZMM Narrator & Chris likely experienced, in the always changing conditions of this “Cold, Grey Coastal California Fog”.

….New Topic: Back In 2002 As I Drove Into Crescent City, CA , I did my best to get a good photo of an awful “sign-strewn road,“ but didn’t much find “scenes” as bad as the Narrator suggests. Perhaps Crescent City back then had cleaned things up a bit.
…Lacking any photos of my own, In /\ Above /\ Photo is the best I could do for an awful “sign-strewn road“.

…NEXT PHOTO includes instructions how to Google Street View “DRIVE” the streets to the Pacific Ocean.
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After All The ZMM Narrator’s Stated Anticipation ….. Finally ….. the Pacific Ocean! There It IS !!

“ …. grey and cold and wet, and Chris and I look and see the water, the ocean, in the distance beyond piers and grey buildings. I remember this was our great goal all these days.
…[Later on down the highway.] We enter a restaurant with a fancy red carpet and fancy menus with extremely high prices. We are the only people here. We eat silently, pay and are on the road again, south now, cold and misty.” (Cont. Next)

First view of the Pacific Ocean, Battery Point, Crescent City, CA. The /\ Above /\ Photo was taken at an elevation of no more than ~20 feet, but here and later beach photos my GPS reads around 30 feet. Evidently, my GPS (at least in this area) reads elevation higher by this amount. Many other places I have given additional elevation data (as was available), so you the reader, can judge the comparative accuracy of my GPS elevation numbers. And I have decided to always report my GPS readings as given by my Handheld GPS Receiver, and thus allow the reader to decide how and when to use my elevation data.

How To Google Street View “DRIVE” The Streets To The Pacific Ocean.
…The PREVIOUS Photo, Showed A Google Street View Of => A Clutter Of Buildings And The ZMM Narrator’s “Sign-Strewn Road” … This GSV was at 1130 US-101 Highway, Crescent City, CA.
…The Instructions below, will guide your GSV “Drive” to Battery Point, where it will show the Lighthouse on an offshore island.

INSTRUCTIONS =>
After Google Street View (GSV) Comes Up, Then => Click the Google Street View Image, WHERE you want the “VIEW” To go. => Thus You Can Successively Click-Click-Click & “GSV Drive” Along The Street You See On Your Computer Screen. You Can Even Click-On A Side Street, To “GSV Drive” Along That Side Street !! (If Available.) …To “Jump Ahead” The Greatest Distance, Click On The Road The Furthest Distance Away. …. At any time you can Click-On The Plus&Minus To Zoom …. AND You can “ClickDrag” the Image On Screen in any direction, for a better view.
…You SHOULD click at lower left to expand the Strip Map. The Yellow PegMan on this Strip Map, will show what direction you are going and your progress,

TO GSV “DRIVE” TO PACIFIC OCEAN AT BATTERY POINT =>
…1) “GSV Drive” Click-Click-Click along US-101, and watch your position in the Strip Map at screen bottom, until you reach Front Street.
…2) At Front Street, ClickOn this street to right, and GSV will make a right turn to the Southwest.
…3) Click-Click-Click along Front Street until you reach its END at street named Lighthouse Way.
…4) At Lighthouse Way, ClickOn this street to left, and GSV will make a left turn to the Southeast.
…5) Click-Click-Click along Lighthouse Way until you go by a house and big bushes at right. Here Lighthouse Way turns slightly to left. Follow this which will turn slightly right at some marked parking places. Go by these until you can not get any closer to the Pacific Ocean.
…6) “ClickDrag” the Image On Screen so at right you can see the Lighthouse on an island.
…7) At this point => You can further explore what is here by => Click-On The Plus&Minus To Zoom …. AND You can “ClickDrag” the Image On Screen in any direction, for a better view.
Right Click Here, Select New Tab, And See Google Street View (GSV) For 1130 US-101 Highway, Crescent City, CA.. AFTER this GSV comes up, follow above instructions.
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Out The Smudged & Ivy Covered Windows, You Can Make Out the Darker Entrance Area For The University of Chicago Hospital. Also Seen Are Sidewalks, Lawn, and Sitting Benches. Phaedrus’ Classroom Possibility Number Two.

“In the next sessions the shamed student is no longer present. No surprise. The class is completely frozen, as is inevitable when an incident like that has taken place. Each session, just one person does all the talking, the Professor of Philosophy, and he talks and talks and talks to faces that have turned into masks of neutrality. .. The Professor of Philosophy seems quite aware of what has happened. His previous little eye-flick of malice toward Phædrus has turned to a little eye-flick of fear. He seems to understand that within the present classroom situation, when the time comes, he can get exactly the same treatment he gave, and there will be no sympathy from any of the faces before him. He’s thrown away his right to courtesy. There’s no way to prevent retaliation now except to keep covered. . But to keep covered he must work hard, and say things exactly right. Phædrus understands this too. By remaining silent he can now learn under what are very advantageous circumstances.“

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Summertime at The University of Chicago Hospital Medical Center.

…This View Through A Cobb Hall Classroom Glass Window, Is What Phaedrus Might Have Seen From His Classroom In September or Early October.

[The Narrator covers Phaedrus’ Pre-judged Mode of Study, then continues:] “Aristotle fouled up what Phædrus wanted to say by placing rhetoric in an outrageously minor category in his hierarchic order of things. It was a branch of Practical Science, a kind of shirttail relation to the other category, Theoretical Science, which Aristotle was mainly involved in. As a branch of Practical Science it was isolated from any concern with Truth or Good or Beauty, except as devices to throw into an argument. Thus Quality, in Aristotle’s system, is totally divorced from rhetoric. This contempt for rhetoric, combined with Aristotle’s own atrocious quality of rhetoric, so completely alienated Phædrus he couldn’t read anything Aristotle said without seeking ways to despise it and attack it.” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

In the /\ Above Photo => The dark object looks like a Sculptured Sphere. But later photos show the hospital and you will see this is a Disk Shaped Sculpture.
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Another View of the Hospital Through The Grimy Windows Of A Cobb Lecture Hall Classroom.

…[The Narrator covers Phaedrus’ discovery of why the dialectic is so important to the Philosophy Professor, and the key fact that it is a “fulcrum word.” Then continues:]
…“Phædrus guessed that Aristotle’s diminution of dialectic, from Plato’s sole method of arriving at truth to a "counterpart of rhetoric," might be as infuriating to modern Platonists as it would have been to Plato. Since the Professor of Philosophy didn’t know what Phædrus’ "position" was, this was what was making him edgy. He might be afraid that Phædrus the Platonist was going to jump him. If so, he certainly had nothing to worry about. Phædrus wasn’t insulted that dialectic had been brought down to the level of rhetoric. He was outraged that rhetoric had been brought down to the level of dialectic. Such was the confusion at the time. .. The person to clear all this up, of course, was Plato, and fortunately he was the next to appear at the round table with the crack running across the middle in the dim dreary room across from the hospital building in South Chicago.” (U. Chicago. Cont .Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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A Fairly Misty, Foggy Day At the Coast, But Not As Bad As Described By the Narrator.

…“We follow the coast now, cold, wet and depressed. The rain has let up, temporarily, but the sky shows no hope. At one point I see a beach and some people walking on it in the wet sand. I’m tired and so I stop. .. As he gets off, Chris says, "What are we stopping for?" .. "I’m tired," I say.” (Cont. Next)

Three miles South of Orick, CA. Here we get a typical sample of California Cold, Depressing, Dreary, Dismal, Drizzly Fog. For me, this lasted for several hours until the sun finally burned it off. However, for Chris and the Narrator, the rain and cold never let up all day and part of the next. *************************

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Here The Mountain Slopes Down To The Beach.

…“The wind blows cold off the ocean and where it has formed dunes, now wet and dark from the rain that must just have ended here, I find a place to lie down, and this makes me a little warmer. .. I don’t sleep though. A little girl appears over the top of the dune looking as though she wants me to come and play. After a while she goes away. .. In time Chris comes back and wants to go. He says he has found some funny plants out on the rocks that have feelers which pull in when you touch them. ” (Cont. Next)
Five miles South of Orick, CA. The ZMM Reader should come to attention when seeing the Narrator’s seeming useless words => A little girl appears over the top of the dune looking as though she wants me to come and play. After a while she goes away.”
…But this inserted phrase, has an important meaning similar to the Narrator’s 1) “A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. ” or 2) “ Except for that and the chirping of some little bird there’s no sound.”
...These 3phrases are Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us, that he as author knows that the Narrator’s treatment of Chris is very deficient.
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California Coast: The Low Tide Exposes Rocks and Myriads of Water Creatures.

…“[In time Chris comes back and wants to go. He says he has found some funny plants out on the rocks that have feelers which pull in when you touch them.] I go with him and see between rises of waves on the rocks that they are sea anemones, which are not plants but animals. I tell him the tentacles can paralyze small fish. The tide must be all the way out or we wouldn’t see these, I say. From the corner of my eye I see the little girl on the other side of the rocks has picked up a starfish. Her parents are carrying some starfish too.” (Cont .Next)“

Five miles South of Orick, CA. I did not find any exposed rocks along the ocean edge, in areas consistent with the ZMM Narrative, so the /\ Above /\ Photo shows what is seen at the rightly famed half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
…In the previous photo it said => These 3 phrases are Author Robert Pirsig’s way of telling us, that he as author knows that the Narrator’s treatment of Chris is very deficient. … But in ZMM phrase above, the Narrator, despite not getting any rest, decides to go with Chris to see the “ sea anemones”. And approvingly continues with “ Her parents are carrying some starfish too.”
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After Leaving The Beach, The Road Goes By Flowers And A Curve In the Road Turns South.

…“We get on the motorcycle and move south. Sometimes the rain gets heavy and I snap on the bubble so it doesn’t sting my face, but I don’t like this and take it off when the rain dies away. We should reach Arcata before dark but I don’t want to go too fast on this wet road.” (Cont. Next)

Six miles South of Orick, CA. In Addition, the ZMM Narrator doesn’t want to go too fast, Metaphoric Bridge Connection, on his discussion of Phaedrus’s final days in Chicago.
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