著者

村田 康常

出版者

名古屋柳城短期大学幼児教育・保育研究会

雑誌

柳城こども学研究 = Ryujo Child Studies

巻号頁・発行日

no.1, pp.81-108, 2018-07-20

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In this paper, we attempt to introduce the "philosophy of play," which extensively examines the question of what play is. In previous noteworthy studies, it has been shown that people were born to play, and that to play is to live. This paper is an attempt to approach this idea from the viewpoint of A. N. Whitehead's educational philosophy. In Chapter 2, as a starting point for discussing play, we will examine the classical "philosophy of play" through the philosophies of Schiller, Huizinga, Fink, Bateson, and others who believed that the very act of the creation of this world was play and that culture is born in the world of play. In Chapter 3, we discuss the "rhythm of education" in Whitehead's philosophy of education from the viewpoint of the connection between life and play, and examine the rhythm of education from the perspective of Whitehead's philosophy of organism. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no previous attempts to approach the philosophy of play from the standpoint of the philosophy of organism. This paper is an attempt to consider the philosophy of play, which originated from Schiller's aesthetics and was developed by Huizinga, Fink, Caillois, and others from the viewpoint of Whitehead's philosophy of organism or process philosophy.