Hi All
Doug, you'll find the reference to the 'code of art' in Lila about 2 or 3 pages from the end of
chapter 13.
"As Phaedrus had gotten into them he had seen that the isolation of these static moral codes
was important. They were really little moral empires all their own, as separate from one
another as the static levels whose conflicts they resolved:
First, there were moral codes that established the supremacy of biological life over
inanimate nature. Second, there were moral codes that established the supremacy of the
social order over biological life—conventional morals—proscriptions against drugs, murder,
adultery, theft and the like. Third, there were moral codes that established the supremacy of
the intellectual order over the social order—democracy, trial by jury, freedom of speech,
freedom of the press. Finally there’s a fourth Dynamic morality which isn’t a code. He
supposed you could call it a “code of Art” or something like that, but art is usually thought of
as such a frill that that title undercuts its importance. The morality of the brujo in Zu–i—that
was Dynamic morality."
>From Lila by R.M.Pirsig
Horse
On 17 May 2001, at 9:16, Douglas Hemmick wrote:
> Pardon me for asking, but my copies of Lila
> and ZAAMM seem to have nothing of a code of art.
>
> Someone help me find out what I am missing
> and where it is located?
>
> Thanks.
> Doug
>
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