"I don't want to be a f***ing housecat!" --- On the Schiller-Spencer theory of play as a model of human flourishing

..instead of saying, the animals play because they are young, we must say, the animals have a youth in order that they may play - Karl Groos — but I do not, therefore, want my life to stop being a game. That's why I subscribe whole-heartedly to Schiller's phrase: ‘Man is fully a man only when he plays.’ - Jean-Paul Sartre S: Still, Grasshopper, I find that I have a serious reservation about the…