Sublime

he contends that philosophy has been overly concerned with knowledge (epistemology). This, he believes, turns all our relationships into instruments, alienating us from the world (to give him a little of Rosa’s language).

I began this book by introducing two fictitious characters, spent some time discussing two species, and ended with two selves. The two characters were the intuitive System 1, which does the fast thinking, and the effortful and slower System 2, which does the slow thinking, monitors System 1, and maintains control as best it can within its limited r

This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.

But, most relevant to our argument, this imagined community, revealed in this famous line, assumes a present that is but a lifetime. My imaginative interaction with my nation is assumed to bear the time of my life.

“And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It’s the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.”

c’est le secret de l’Être : la difficulté est nécessaire. C’est pour cette raison que nous nous posons délibérément des limites. Chaque fois que nous jouons à un jeu, par exemple, nous acceptons une série de restrictions arbitraires. Nous nous rétrécissons, nous nous limitons et nous explorons les possibilités ainsi révélées. C’est ce qui fait le j

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse