Play and Seriousness: Plato and Aristotle
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13135/2038-6788/10093Keywords:
Adult, Aristotle, Athlete, Child, Plato, Play, Serious Play, SeriousnessAbstract
The paper begins with a contrast between two competing paradigms of play: the child and the adult athlete. It then argues that Plato rejects the former but strongly affirms the latter as a model of philosophy – indeed, of the best human life – itself. By contrast, Aristotle rejects both conceptions of play. He is an entirely serious man.
