Arguments have a tendancy to ruin relationships between friends and family, causing people to despise each other for years. Because of these disagreements, the bickering terminates all future communications, thus stopping the continuation of “spiel.” In his book Truth and Method, the philospher Gadamer explains the concept of play, or spiel, as actively participating in the game, whether it be a conversation, an artistic experience, or an athletic event. However, this require the subjects to “lose theirself” in the hopes of finding themselves and in order to gain understanding (Gadamer 101). So, this paper will attempt to determine whether or not it it possible to lose oneself in an effort to successfully play the game and whether or not it …show more content…
For insance, people have opinions, biases, and experiences that will always affect how they act and think. So even though Gadamer insists that players must forget themselves to be truly involved in the game, it is unrealistic to believe that people can control how their own thoughts influence their character and conduct. Still, Gadamer and his advocates might say that a person just attempting to lose oneself, even if they do not completely succeed in doing so, fufills the main purpose of forgetting oneself. If they try to remove all prior biases and inhabitions, they will accomplish committing to the game in their own terms. However, prejuducie might prevail regardless of what a person thinks they are doing because someone cannot always recognize their own moments of partiality. Nevertheless, Gadamer might also reply with in that focusing completely on the game, a person could lose themselves because of this intense fixation to play, as they could not possibly think of anything else. But in not concentrating on changing one’s behavior, one is even more suscepible to previous habits and prejudices. So, Gadamer’s strict version of perfect spiel remains impossible to replicate due to a human nature prone to mistakes and