FUN AND GAMES
a section of his c350 BC ethical treatise , Greek philosopher Aristotle ponders the meaning and importance of leisure in ancient life. “Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure,” he writes. But far from being a passive act of relaxation, Aristotle believed that leisure should take the form of an activity that was meaningful in itself, as a way of cultivating virtue – from music to poetry to philosophy. The goal of work, therefore, was not play,
