James Carse, PhD, (1932–2020) was an American author, historian, religious scholar, and professor. Carse’s books and study focus on the intersection between religious thought and science, philosophy, literature, and political theory.
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Finite games are those instrumental activities - from sports to politics to wars - in which the participants obey rules, recognize boundaries and announce winners and losers.
As part of the Arkansas Literary Festival, religious scholar James Carse discusses his book, "The Religious Case Against Belief," which depicts a world where religion and belief have become erroneously conflated.
Reflection on life in terms of competition, Professor Carse compares two types of games manifested in human life--finite games, the familiar games of daily life that are bounded by space and time and infinite games, unbounded, unfettered, creative expressions of the human spirit.
If life is a game, how do you play it? The answer will have a huge impact on your choices, your satisfaction, and how you achieve success.
In 1986, James P. Carse wrote Finite and Infinite Games. In that book, Carse argues that there are two types of games: as you would expect, finite games and infinite games.
