This work was named for a Eugen Herrigel book and posits that gumption is essential to living.
This work finds fault with the scientific method's penchant for producing what it terms "mu answers" and failure in producing a unifying truth. One section of this work uses the example of Indian villagers capturing monkeys with coconuts to illustrate the dangers of rigidity, and it warns against muscle traps, truth traps, and value traps. The author of this work followed it with a work subtitled "An Inquiry into Morals" which lists the two types of its central concept as static and dynamic and the four levels of that concept as inorganic, biological,  social, and intellectual. This work was named for a Eugen Herrigel book and posits that gumption is essential to living. This work suggests that the universe is composed of an indefinable ideal termed quality, an idea elucidated during a (*) frame narrative in which Phaedrus and his son make their way from Minnesota to California on the title conveyance. For 10 points, name this philosophical book by Robert Pirsig which is not really about an eastern religion with a Soto sect or the upkeep of engine propelled two wheeled vehicles.
This work finds fault with the scientific method's penchant for producing what it terms "mu answers" and failure in producing a unifying truth.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance