Are there really games in Utopia? A reinterpretation of Suits’s <i>The Grasshopper</i>
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Abstract In this essay we argue that there is a contradiction lurking at the heart of Bernard Suits's seminal book on philosophy games, The Grasshopper, which has oddly gone unnoticed for 43 years. Suits argues games need inefficiency and defines such it wouldn't exist in Utopia. This trivially entails could be no Utopia, yet whole normative point Grasshopper would only worthwhileactivity We then diagnose error suggest some ways forward.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Analysis
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0174-4747', '2196-6753']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaa087