Reviews for Readings in the theory of action

The average rating for Readings in the theory of action based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-05-18 00:00:00 Narissa Holford "Gambling attaches material consequences to a cause of human making. It assures the gambler that he is living in a logical world where cause is tied to effect." Neitzsche believed there was no reality behind existence, no essence behind phenomena; gambling/play for Neitzche was a deliberate delusion. Freud believed "that mastery of an uncertain world was behind man's desire to play, to control an otherwise chaotic world. It was the desire for mastery that kept civilization going." Shakespeare's "soliloquies speculate on the frightening power of the mind to believe illusions, and, worse still, to believe in illusions of its own making." "The power to construct a reality, then impose it or get it accepted as such, is an effective form of power." The reality of death is unbearable, and man bears it by falsifying illusions (gambling/play) which cause us to make light of death.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-04-04 00:00:00 Michael Southwick I love that this is about Cornwall but its very dry and a older womans style of noting informtion