Schiller meets “Grand Theft Auto”: Perspectives of Video Game Ethics

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· 발행기관 : 한국철학회
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The playing of video games has made the question of which ethical model gamic actions can be judged urgent in a new way. The argument that classic ethical models (virtue ethics, deontology and utilitarianism) ultimately only apply to ‘real actions’ but not to ‘virtual actions’ in a video game has led to the thesis of “ludic amoralism” (Ostritsch, 2018). This is countered by the largely dominant intuition in the public discussion that gamic actions, especially in cases of blatant ‘acts of violence’, can and should be judged morally. The contribution attempts to develop a mediating position following Friedrich Schiller’s classical play theory. The starting point is Schiller’s idea of a premorality of play and a conceptual-holistic connection between play and non-play, real and morally assessable actions. Following on from this, it is argued that, due to their connection with other actions (incl. directly morally assessable actions), gamic actions must meet minimal normative requirements, even if they are not allowed to become the subject of context-free moral judgments. A much discussed and often scandalized example, the video game “Grand Theft Auto”, illustrates the scope and limits of this approach. Concerning the question of an adequate theoretical model of video game ethics it is argued as a consequence of these considerations in favor of a situational ethics and therefore fundamentally against the introduction of a moral code.

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