A first-person account of the narrator's motorcycle journey with his 11-year-old son Chris is the backdrop for a philosophical discussion about the meaning of quality in this renowned novel from 1974. As the two travel from Minnesota to California, the artful maintenance required to keep the motorcycle running becomes a metaphor for how to combine the cold, rational world of technology and the warm, imaginative world of art. The daily care of the mechanical pieces, their correct functions, and the necessary equilibrium of the parts that make up the whole enclose the history of Western philosophy. The magic of this book, which has touched millions of readers all over the world, resides in its capacity to captivate the reader with a heartwarming story while browsing philosophical heritage from Socrates to Kant, at the same time examining the valuable counterweight of philosophical currents...
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