Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality

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The Metaphysics of Quality (MoQ) is a theory of reality introduced in Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991). The MOQ is an integration and expansion of Logical Positivism, Sophistry, American Pragmatism, Indigenous American philosophy and Sōtō Zen. Framework has ben inspired by the work of F. S. C. Northrop's notion of Undifferentiated Aesthetic Continuum. Pirsig argues that the MoQ is a better lens through which to view reality than the subjective/objective mindset that Pirsig attributes to Aristotle. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance references the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat Tvam Asi ("Thou art that"), which asserts an existential monism as opposed to the subject–object dualism, though he later clarified that segregation of metaphysical systems as "monism, dualism and pluralism, seems to me to be an arbitrary classification where none is needed. The Metaphysics of Quality is all three: Quality...

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