Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.


Ch. 1 : The Rules of the Game - The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)


Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but...

Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but...

Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but...

Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but...