What is play in humanity? In the excerpt “Reclaiming the Power of Play”, the author Stephen T. Asma has an overall claim on humanity’s perception of play, he has an opinion that the stakes for play are higher than what people perceive it to be. He then makes three subsequent claims to support his main claim. It is apparent that the excerpt can be broken up into three segments. The first segment consists of the opinions of philosophers on the topic of play. The second segment on the other hand, focuses on the perception of play by animal scientists. Finally, the author includes his thoughts on play.
The first claim that the author makes to support his overall claim is that play, like language and imagination emerged due to the adaptations of …show more content…
Firstly, Aristotle is Plato’s disciple, they would thus share the same views and ideals. Therefore, it is inappropriate for the author to state that the attention philosophers pay to play is usually dismissive as he provides little evidence to support his statement. Secondly, in the passage, Aristotle holds the view that play should be dismissed from leisure. This does not constitute play as a symbol of disorder. Thus, the author committed the red herring fallacy as Aristotle’s view is irrelevant and should not be used to serially support play as a symbol of …show more content…
He makes two separately supportive reasons to support this claim. The first separately supportive reason is that play is widely distributed in the mammal class. The serially supportive reason is that juvenile play in mammals benefits them in their social development. The author further serially supports the previous statement by saying that “Play is underwritten by an innate brain system, where rough-and-tumble play is motivated and anticipated by pikes in dopamine, while the play itself seems to release pleasurable opioids and oxytocin.” (Asma, 2015)
The second separately supportive reason is that “Animal scientists suggests that play evolved as an adaptation for social bonding”. (Asma, 2015) The author serially supports this by saying that due to the safer, stable family structures during the Pleistocene, humanity has more time for leisure to learn, create and play. He further serially supports this theory from Peter Farb’s “Man’s Rise to Civilization”, where it states that when childhood become safer, play probably increased
The first claim that the author makes to support his overall claim is that play, like language and imagination emerged due to the adaptations of …show more content…
Firstly, Aristotle is Plato’s disciple, they would thus share the same views and ideals. Therefore, it is inappropriate for the author to state that the attention philosophers pay to play is usually dismissive as he provides little evidence to support his statement. Secondly, in the passage, Aristotle holds the view that play should be dismissed from leisure. This does not constitute play as a symbol of disorder. Thus, the author committed the red herring fallacy as Aristotle’s view is irrelevant and should not be used to serially support play as a symbol of …show more content…
He makes two separately supportive reasons to support this claim. The first separately supportive reason is that play is widely distributed in the mammal class. The serially supportive reason is that juvenile play in mammals benefits them in their social development. The author further serially supports the previous statement by saying that “Play is underwritten by an innate brain system, where rough-and-tumble play is motivated and anticipated by pikes in dopamine, while the play itself seems to release pleasurable opioids and oxytocin.” (Asma, 2015)
The second separately supportive reason is that “Animal scientists suggests that play evolved as an adaptation for social bonding”. (Asma, 2015) The author serially supports this by saying that due to the safer, stable family structures during the Pleistocene, humanity has more time for leisure to learn, create and play. He further serially supports this theory from Peter Farb’s “Man’s Rise to Civilization”, where it states that when childhood become safer, play probably increased