From: Jordi Soldevila (jordi.solda@wanadoo.es)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 13:00:17 GMT
Hi you all and congratulations for creating this list to dicuss a very
interesting book,
I’m a translator into Catalan and I’m now translating the second half of
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. I’m using the 25th
anniversary edition from Vintage Books. The fact is that I’ve got a
doubt on the comprehension of a term in a phrase of the book, namely in
the page 252 (chapter 20). The fragment in wihich this word is included
is the following:
“Phaedrus remembered Hegel had been regarded as a bridge between Western
and Oriental philosophy. The Vedanta of the Hindus, the Way of the
Taoists, even the Buddha had been described as an absolute monism
similar to Hegel’s philosophy. Phaedrus doubted at the time, however,
whether mystical Ones and metaphysical monisms were introconvertable
since mystical Ones follow no rules and metaphysical monisms do. His
Quality was a metaphysical entity, not a mystic one. Or was it? What was
the difference?”
I think, thanks to the context (cause i can’t find the meaning of this
adjective anywhere) that this phrase means, more or less, that he
doubted whether mystical Ones and metaphysical monisms were the same.
That is my suggestion for a translation into Catalan, but I’m ot sure at
all, so I would be very pleased if somebody could help me in
interpreting this term, and to some extend this sentence.
Thanks a lot,
Jordi Soldevila.
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