Source: Wikipedia, " Lusory attitude", available under the CC-BY-SA License. To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit use of more efficient in favour of less efficient means, and where the rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity. That book presents an argument that game playing is the supreme human good - one that will invite you to think more deeply about games and what it means to live a good life, even if the argument doesn't convince you.īernard Suits termed the term lusory attitude in the book The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, first published in 1978, in which Suits defines the playing of a game as "the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles".
In his book The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia he masterfully took up Wittgenstein's challenge to supply necessary and sufficient conditions for what it means to be a game. But it combines humor and profundity like no other book I know. His legacy in this field consists of the seminal book The Grasshopper.
Professor Bernard Suits, of the University of Waterloo, is one of the only philosophers of games and gaming. Introduction: Bernard Suits’ Philosophy of Games Bernard Suits is known mainly for his contribution to philosophical game theo-ry. The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia Bernard Suits, Thomas Hurka (Introduction) 4.11 421 ratings47 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable there are no common threads that link them all. Article Edit | History | Editors Action Page
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