The Basic Principles of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games in Relation to Philosophy

Petr Sádlo

Littera Scripta, 2018, vol. 11, issue 1

Abstract: The aim of this article is to uncover the relationships between philosophy and Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (hereinafter MMORPG) and their discussion fora; i.e. the relevance of existential and analytical philosophy to the virtual world of MMORPGs. Content analysis of writings by famous philosophers was employed as a reliable method for gathering relevant data, as it was for collecting useful information from MMORPG discussion fora. The author assumes that MMORPGs originated as a response to the super-technical and increasingly technocratic western world from which players want to escape in order to find a simpler and more challenging, yet virtual world.

Keywords: globalisation; chaos; MMORPG; discussion fora; existential philosophy; analytical philosophy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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