{"id":533,"date":"2026-03-16T18:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/58-tiger-cub-2\/?p=533"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:09:39","slug":"class-notes-3-16-posted-by-diana-antonyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/58-tiger-cub-2\/2026\/03\/16\/class-notes-3-16-posted-by-diana-antonyan\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Notes: 3\/16 (Posted by Diana Antonyan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Discussion of Part IV of <\/b><b>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Monday, 03\/16\/2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ideas of <\/span><b>mythos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><b>logos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> connect with the concepts of the <\/span><b>romantic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the <\/span><b>classical<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Aristotle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a teacher of <\/span><b>rhetoric<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are <\/span><b>three pillars<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of his argument:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Logos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 logic<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Ethos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 credibility<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Pathos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 emotion<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you balance these three, you will be more successful in persuasion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At first, the <\/span><b>second identity (Phaedrus)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> appears and worries the narrator, but he realizes that by not opening the door, he is actually causing more trouble.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end, they drive back to <\/span><b>San Francisco<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Chris asks, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWere you crazy?\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which releases the tension.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Phaedrus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> comes across as <\/span><b>more empathetic in times of cruelty<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The narrator was <\/span><b>fighting with Phaedrus until the end<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but accepting him at the end is helpful for Chris.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If the narrator had <\/span><b>accepted him earlier<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, more interesting conversations might have happened.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The narrator may have been <\/span><b>unnecessarily cruel to Chris at the beginning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, possibly because he could see that Chris wanted someone like <\/span><b>Phaedrus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a <\/span><b>father figure<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and he did not want that version of himself to come out. Because of this, he may have judged Chris as well.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Phaedrus and the narrator are both ill in their own different ways.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>The story has a <\/span><b>sad ending<\/b><span>, but the <\/span><b>birth of his daughter<\/b><span> makes it somewhat uplifting.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion of Part IV of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Monday, 03\/16\/2026 The ideas of mythos and logos connect with the concepts of the romantic and the classical. Aristotle is a teacher of rhetoric. 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