[MD] The Arete Initiative

[ian glendinning]

The history is in ZMM (and Lila) and the Timeline.

The significances are ..

(1) Pirsig was at Chicago Uni studying his philosophy / rhetoric PhD.
(2) McKeon was the "Chairman" in the book, and the person taking the
course at the time of his breakdown.
(3) Arete means roughly "excellence" as used by Pirsig, (and was the
name of the boat in Lila).
(4) The initiative at Chicago is called "Arete".

Bob was just recognizing the connection - and hoping Chicago better
luck this time.

See the timeline from the end of 1960 up to 1963.
http://www.psybertron.org/timeline.html.
There's a fair bit about McKeon on the web.
"Will the real Chairman please stand up" from memory ?
Ian


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Heather Perella
<spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ian,
>
>    By the way, what was the point of Pirsig
> introducing this link?  I don't know due to some
> historical overtones that are not explicit in this
> post you wrote.
>
> SA
>
>
>
>
> --- ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > BTW, don't know if anyone looked at the blog link
> > above, but I got a
> > private response from Bob, and he included a link to
> > an interesting
> > quote about his erstwhile nemesis McKeon. See the
> > 10th comment in the
> > thread.
> >
> > http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1526
> >
> > (Sadly, you'll also find a thread of comments from
> > Glenn Bradford /
> > Richard Loggins - sorry about that.)
> >
> > Regards
> > Ian
> >
> > On 4/6/08, ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Wisdom Research at Chicago University.
> > > Interesting - what's in a name ?
> > >
> > > http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1526
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Ian
> > >
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