PHILOS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Utopia
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Play = any intrinsically valuable activity (e. g. , a game or sport) Working/ technical activity = activity in which an agent seeks to employ the most efficient available means for reaching a desired goal. (24) Playing a game (rough definition): playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles (43) Rules prohibit the most efficient means to an end. Game playing performs a crucial role in delineating that ideal a role that cannot be performed by other activity, and without which an account of the ideal is either incomplete or impossible. (182) Work is entirely automated. (182) not even a minimum staff is necessary . Easy economic satisfaction; no need for productive labor: all interpersonal problems that don"t depend on scarcity are eliminated (e. g. , by drugs or therapy) No need for governing: no need for art, science, or philosophy. Yes, we could still play games, the only possible remaining constituent of ideal existence.
