Abstract
ABSTRACT For many people, the words play, leisure, and recreation are synonymous and interchangeable while for others, the terms represent pedestrian concepts displaying simple relationships. Treating the terms as equivalent or as referents to banal concepts is harmful because the actions stymie in-depth investigations into the phenomena limiting our understanding of human existence. The present investigation addresses the situation by employing a philosophical approach based on the works of Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink to study the concepts. The investigation yields several outcomes. One was imbuing play, leisure, and recreation with substantial meanings because the concepts are situated as important aspects of human existence. Forwarding an in-depth conceptualization of each construct is another outcome leading to clear differentiation among the phenomena and progress beyond impoverished notions that depict play as behavior most often engaged in by children, leisure as free time, and recreation as freely chosen activities. The final outcome is gaining insight into relationships among the conceptualizations.
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