C. Thi Nguyen

It's this big, rich tradition, and it is coming out in a bunch of different sources.

And I think the best way to talk about it is just talk about some of the details.

So, one, suits.

our philosopher of games, he had this view at the end of the book where he says, he has this following argument, weird ass argument.

He says, imagine utopia where technology has solved all our practical problems.

What would we do with our time?

We would play games or we would be bored out of our minds.

So games must be the meaning of life.

And what he actually is doing, he's offering this like... So, Sutu is an Aristotle scholar.

So, part of what's underneath this is Aristotle's view that meaning in life comes from activity and not just outcomes, right?

It's the doing, the exercise of our capacities.

But there's a wrinkle on it.

And my best...

Okay, here's a story of maybe the best teaching moment of my life.

So I told this story, I was teaching introduction to philosophy and I taught suits and I told this argument about suits and the meaning of life.

And one of my students, it pissed her off so much.

She's a pre-med, she's like super productive.

She was just like the idea that games are the meaning of life is the most repellent, disgusting, like lazy thing I've ever heard in my life.

Okay, fast forward a month.

At the end of class, we're doing a review session.