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If there are courses within behaviorally oriented graduate psychology training institutions dealing with the philosophy of therapy or wishing to address the existential base of much of what goes on inside psychotherapy more fully, this book would be a valuable addition to the reading list.
Halfway through this book I became like a viewer of a B movie, rooting for the villain -that hapless finite player.
If there are courses within behaviorally oriented graduate psychology training institutions dealing with the philosophy of therapy or wishing to address the existential base of much of what goes on inside psychotherapy more fully, this book would be a valuable addition to the reading list.
I read things like the Tao Te Ching, The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, philosophical novels by Umberto Eco and Hermann Hesse, and Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse (a neglected classic in the philosophy of living, I think). Somehow all that got me into thinking more and more about philosophy and especially about consciousness.
I read things like the Tao Te Ching, The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, philosophical novels by Umberto Eco and Hermann Hesse, and Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse (a neglected classic in the philosophy of living, I think). Somehow all that got me into thinking more and more about philosophy and especially about consciousness.
For Carse, one may apply this distinction throughout the whole range of human interest and behavior. Most people tend to approach all areas of their lives as finite games. Carse, however, invites us to become players of infinite games.
It is filled with catchy examples and clever twists that force the reader to confront ultimate questions. One might disagree with his premise and therefore not like his conclusion; his argument, nevertheless, is almost irresistible.
Profound and provocative when he is not being glib or pontificating, Carse urges us to become "infinite players," storytellers who can never know the outcome of our own stories.
