游戏中有什么?

Sunday, October 25, 2020

What Is It

从最早的文明开始,游戏就是人类社会不可分割的一部分。他们在世界各地的各个阶层和地位的人,在人生的每个阶段,从童年到老年。为什么我们如此热爱游戏?它们只是一种消磨空暇时间或逃避日常琐事的愉快方式吗?还是说,我们玩游戏是为了建立社会关系,培养重要的生活技能?有没有什么游戏是我们永远不应该玩的?究竟是什么让一款游戏成为“游戏”?Josh and Ray team up with Thi Nguyen from the University of Utah, author ofGames: Agency as Art.

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Maurice

Thursday, October 1, 2020 -- 11:01 AM

I love games--I enjoy playing

I love games--I enjoy playing them and watching them. However, games have become a powerful metaphor in our society that has helped to erode the complexity of our moral thinking. The moral conditions of life are too nuanced to allow game metaphors to dominate our social and political thinking. Please see the article, "Business is Not A Game"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-008-9859-0or the chapter, "Politics is Not A Game"https://works.bepress.com/maurice_hamington/43/

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admin

Sunday, October 25, 2020 -- 10:55 AM

Thanks for the comment and

Thanks for the comment and links, Maurice! I think you'll find guest Thi Nguyen very sympathetic to your position.

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Harold G. Neuman

Sunday, March 7, 2021 -- 6:37 AM

Yes, games have been a human

Yes, games have been a human passtime all over the world. They are universal. But as Maurice points out, games and game theory may be abused. By abusive people. And by abusive governments, corporations, even those entities whose aims are ecclesiastical in content. Neither is this all that recent. The best example of man's inhumanity to man came during the darker age of civilization. The Churchmen administered all sorts of torturers to those who defied their authority and chose free-thinking or some other blasphemous course. Reprogramming had early origins---and, it was not merely psychological. Anyone who free-thinks a bit may want to examine some accounts of these early efforts at corrective socialization. Titles coming to mind include: Strange Gods by Susan jacoby and, of course, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker's tome on the notion of decreasing violence.

I used to play Bridge and Euchre. Over the years, I withdrew from participation. Some players got way too obsessive, bordering on violent: when it ceases to be a game, it is time to find other passtimes.
现在,我阅读和写作哲学。然而,有人持谨慎态度。正如PT的一篇帖子所指出的,这里有喷子和恶霸。甚至哲学也是一种公平的游戏(游戏邦注:显然是故意的)。