Open AccessFree time, play and game
Author(s) -
Ratko Božović
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
sociologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2406-0712
pISSN - 0038-0318
DOI - 10.2298/soc0801097b
Subject(s) - free will , metagaming , realization (probability) , power (physics) , character (mathematics) , computer science , simultaneous game , sequential game , mathematical economics , epistemology , game theory , mathematics , philosophy , physics , statistics , geometry , quantum mechanics
Free time and play are mutually dependent categories that are always realized together. We either play because we have free time or we have free time because we play (E. Fink). Play, no matter whether it is children's or artistic play or a spontaneous sports game (excluding professional sports) most fully complements human existence and thereby realizes free time as a time in freedom and freedom of time. Therefore, free time exists and is most prominent in play. Moreover, one game releases its creative power and effort through another one, especially through games of leisurely character. The means that free time is realized through games and vice versa. That, first of all, happens by a realization of freedom through a game in a free creative act, but also through an entertaining as well as leisurely play