Reclaiming The Power Of Play By Stephen T. Asma

Play is defined as “a range of voluntary, intrinsically motivated activities normally associated with recreational pleasure and enjoyment.” Although it is often associated with children and rarely so with adults, the importance of play is being undermined. In the excerpt from “Reclaiming the Power of Play” by Stephen T. Asma, he largely argues that play is indeed vital for humanity.
However, some of the objections the author raised up against the claim that play is vital for humanity is because philosophy had little interest in play and where it does rarely take interest, it is usually dismissive. This is serially supported by the fact that play stood as a symbol of disorder for many hard-nosed intellectuals, hence leading to the little interest