The Playground

Philosophy you play with. Each game is one idea built into the rules, so you work it out with your hands before anyone explains it.

Eugen Fink thought play isn’t a break from serious life, but one of the ways the world shows itself. These are small windows.

• 1Heraclitus BeckYou can’t step in the same place twice.Three stretches · a puzzle
• 2Sisyphus BrowPush the boulder to the top of the hill.One hill · keep going
• 3Kierkegaard’s LeapFind out what you can. Then jump.Three crossings · in fog
• 4Uexküll’s MeadowOne meadow, seen through other eyes.Three finds · four worlds
• 5Nietzsche’s DayWould you live it again?One day · again and again
• 6Girard’s FêteMake the whole village want an old boot.One fête · one boot
• 7Machiavelli’s EmbankmentBuild in the calm, before the flood.One valley · one storm
• 8Diogenes’ LanternLooking for an honest man, in broad daylight.One street · one lantern

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