^{page 228 note 1} Huizinga, Johan, Homo Ludens (English translation, London 1949), p. 151.Google Scholar

^{page 228 note 2} I have contended elsewhere that the birth of the modern exact sciences in the seventeenth century came about not so much by any intellectual tour de force, as by virtue of a few people learning to play a new kind of game. They had little conscious notion of what they were about. And the philosophers from Descartes onwards, with few exceptions, because of over-seriousness failed to grasp the situation; instead of gaining insight into the exact sciences, as they purported to do, the philosophers produced nonsensical pseudo-metaphysics. An infusion of paidia would seem to be requisite for any genuine philosophic discourse on the exact sciences.

^{page 232 note 1} Citations from Plato are taken, sometimes with emendation, from the standard English versions: Jowett, Lindsay, Taylor, ect.

^{page 233 note 1} This passage from the Republic was chosen by Søren Kierkegaard as the motto for his Concept of Irony.

^{page 234 note 1} Rahner, Hugo in his Man at Play (English translation, London 1964) provides an admirable sketch of the theology of play.Google Scholar