PHIL 102 Lecture Notes - Game Players, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jeux
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Grasshopper philosophy: nussbaum: play: being able to laugh, to play, and to enjoy recreational activities, one of the important capabilities. Suits: the life of playing games is the best life to live, we"re all playing games without knowing it in some literal sense of game , mostly a metaphor for describing parts of life (coercion, manipulating etc. ) It"s best just to play suits argument. Game variety: ludwig wittgenstein: there is nothing general you can say about games. But nothing that all games share: non-games: not playing the trombone because it"s not playing a game. A good theory should be: extensionally adequate it is true of all games and only games. This theory of games does not undergird and grasshopper philosophy. Games have no make- believe or often produce wealth. To play a game, is to seek/achieve a goal using inefficient means.
