When Life Becomes a Game: A Moral Lesson from Søren Kierkegaard and Bernard Suits

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 13 (3-4):419-431 (2018)
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ABSTRACTHidden among the many fascinating things that Bernard Suits says in his classic The Grasshopper is a passing observation he makes about one of the works of Søren Kierkegaard, the Seducer’s...

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