As one or two of you know very well(!), towards the end of LILA, 
Robert Pirsig briefly refers to a text by Joseph Campbell titled 'The 
Masks of God'.   One of the themes in the latter (which is published in four 
volumes by the way) is the idea of ancient 
archetypes found in - to use the Jungian phrase - the 'collective 
unconscious'. (If you read Volume One of "The Masks of God" about how the 
little girl comes to believe that the match she was playing with becomes a 
witch, you will see more than an analogy here to Lila's doll becoming an idol 
for Phaedrus).  
 
 Anyway, I am pleased to announce a paper by Joseph 
Masaryk that introduces four typical archetypes found in the modern 
Western man with reference to the romantic & classic modes of ZMM 
and the Kantian a priori modes of the Self which supposedly create 
thought i.e. the aesthetic forms of time and space, the logical forms of
 the categories of understanding, and the noumenal forms of the 
Transcendent.  However, this paper is much more readable  than Kant.  
Believe me!  To judge for yourself, you can read Masaryk's paper here:
 
 http://robertpirsig.org/Being.htm


Best wishes,

Ant


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