27 JUL 2018 by ideonexus
The Communal Nature of Tabletop Gaming Complicates Unders...
De Koven’s concept of play is predicated on the idea that play, as a purposeless act, is the means through which we can build community and move closer to living better lives. He ultimately moves away from the idea of playing games and towards a purer idea of play beyond games, play as mastery over nothing in particular (De Koven 2013). For De Koven, games are at best a means to an end, a way to encourage an initial sense of playfulness; at worst, they are a controlling aspect over play, so...29 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Definition of Culture
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.Folksonomies: culture definitions
Folksonomies: culture definitions
Very succinct.
19 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Definition of Culture
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.Folksonomies: culture
Folksonomies: culture
Succinct.
10 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Non-Anthropocentricm as a Virtue
Anthropocentrism isn’t just a faulty value system, but also a faulty way of understanding the world. Modern science has shown this, displacing human beings from the center of the universe, opening up immense vistas of space and time, telling a story of life in which chance, not destiny, has raised an unusual primate to dominance for a short time on a tiny planet in one insignificant corner of the universe. We know this, of course. But our daily experience tends to contradict it, as we walk ...Science displaced humans as the center of the Universe, and as a result, we can see reality more clearly.