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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Phaedrus split human understanding into two classes: classical and romantic understanding. He defined classical understanding as mechanical, interested only in the underlying form of the image. It works with reason and by laws. He calls it �straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned.� It�s such a staple in the fields of science, law, and medicine that it�s viewed as a masculine mode.
Emotion rather than fact rule the romantic understanding principle. Romantic ....
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