{"id":29710,"date":"2021-03-28T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=29710"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:01:47","slug":"the-phaedrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-phaedrus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phaedrus: A Guide in Philosophical Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who is the Phaedrus character in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance\/\">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/a><\/em>? Why does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/robert-pirsig\/\">Robert Pirsig<\/a> use Phaedrus to convey key ideas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Phaedrus character in <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> is Pirsig&#8217;s alter ego. He uses Phaedrus to convey his story and key philosophical ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the Phaedrus character in <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The First Track: The Story<\/strong> and the Phaedrus Character<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When the book begins, Pirsig and Chris have just left Minneapolis on motorcycles. They are accompanied by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/john-and-sylvia-sutherland\/\">John and Sylvia Sutherland<\/a>, friends of Pirsig, who are riding with the Pirsigs as far as Bozeman, Montana. Whereas Pirsig is an editor of technical manuals, John is a drummer, and their differing attitudes toward motorcycle maintenance provide the impetus for Pirsig\u2019s early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/chautauqua-meaning\/\">Chautauquas<\/a> on technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the riders make their way west, the Pirsigs\u2019 backstory is slowly revealed. The key plot points are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Some years before the ride, Pirsig suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized. He was treated with electroshock therapy, which caused him to forget who he was before the treatment. Through occasional fragments of memory and his own research, he\u2019s been able to get a sense of the person he was before. He calls this person Phaedrus.<br><\/li><li>The Phaedrus character was a gifted child who enrolled in college at 15 to study science. He found himself haunted by philosophical questions and eventually flunked out. After a stint in the army, he returned to college to study philosophy.<br><\/li><li>After graduating, again consumed by existential questions, Phaedrus spent years in India studying philosophy. He found Eastern philosophy equally as unsatisfying as Western philosophy and returned to the States. He earned a graduate degree in journalism and wound up teaching rhetoric and composition at Montana State University in Bozeman.<br><\/li><li>His experience teaching led him to the discovery of \u201cQuality,\u201d an indefinable philosophical concept from which (he thought) sprung all of human experience and endeavor. Both for professional and intellectual reasons, he decided to continue researching \u201cQuality\u201d in an interdisciplinary graduate program at the University of Chicago. It was while he was living and studying in Chicago that he suffered his breakdown.<br><\/li><li>Chris has been causing trouble at home lately. He also suffers from chronic stomach aches, but no doctor has been able to find a physical cause. His caretakers fear he\u2019s at risk of a breakdown as well.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In Bozeman, the group stays with an old colleague of Phaedrus named DeWeese. After a few days, the Sutherlands return to Minnesota, and the Pirsigs press on to California. As they near their destination, Pirsig fears that the Phaedrus character is reviving in his mind and another breakdown is imminent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Pirsigs reach California, Chris\u2019s mood is at its nadir. Pirsig feels compelled to have a frank talk with him. He tells Chris that he, Pirsig, was once insane, and that the doctors fear Chris will end up insane as well. (Shortform note: The terminology and overall depiction of mental disorders in the book is dated.) In response, Chris descends into a wailing fit. As Chris rocks and cries, the Phaedrus character speaks through Pirsig, and Chris responds favorably. When Chris asks if Pirsig was <em>really <\/em>insane, the Phaedrus character, through Pirsig, says no. Chris suddenly brightens, and the book ends with the Pirsigs cruising along the Pacific coast, reconciled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the Phaedrus character in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Why does Robert Pirsig use Phaedrus to convey key ideas? The Phaedrus character in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is Pirsig&#8217;s alter ego. He uses Phaedrus to convey his story and key philosophical ideas. 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