What is Game

Posted: Aug 04, 2010 |Comments: 0 |

Play is a common phenomenon known to everyone, however hard to define what a game. Game with us from the age of infancy, later when we were kids not skipped even older people. According to the testimony of investigators and conduct the simple observation of all the animals in some of this phenomenon can be expected of a game. Because not always a clear distinction between a game and what is not a game, the difficulty in defining the term.

Over the years, scholars and intellectuals tried to define what a game different. In many books presented various settings relating to the game, some as an act devoid of purpose: Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), philosopher and poet, "aimless as an expense of energy faced by banks," John Ruskin ( 1819-1900), a thinker and theoretician, "run the body or mind for our pleasure, without purpose" and John Dewey (1859-1952), pedagogue and philosopher in the field of education, defined as "a game performed unknowingly exceeding the goal outside of ourselves" and "Life They are active, any action that does not work is a game. "

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), father of psychoanalysis, as grounds for a game called imaginary wish fulfillment but a spiritual level but not the body."

Some definitions relating to the game according to its goals:

Such as another scholar who studied in depth the phenomenon of the game is Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), who determined that human behavior is playful behavior, claiming that when we play, we tied one way or another the game to the aspirations, to our wishes and needs. "Human Game" is a phrase coined by him.

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