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4. Philosophical Dialogues?
THE NAME of this publication
(‘Philosophical Plays’) is a result of the editor’s wish to categorize the published
plays not as some traditional philosophical dialogues
(cf. David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion,
or George Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, etc.),
or even as some modern variant of such works,
but as compositions of a substantially different nature.
THIS IS NOT to say that
the PP plays do not exhibit any of the characteristics
that may be found in traditional philosophical dialogues;
admittedly, they do have some things in common:
for example, they all feature different characters speaking;
and there certainly is some kind of philosophy going on in all of them.
ON THE WHOLE,
however, the PP plays are not very similar to traditional philosophical dialogues.
For example, the PP plays are composed with an interest in, and concern for,
the characters as individuals with human emotions, beliefs, and desires;
the PP plays feature characters discussing a wider range of topics,
sometimes even including points not immediately recognizable as philosophical;
and the PP plays feature a more realistic (screenplay-like) dialogue,
mostly with shorter speeches.
Also, the PP plays offer elaborate footnotes
by the author about the play and its philosophizing characters.
RECOGNIZING
that the PP plays are not just some superficially modernized copies
(stylistically, rhetorically, philosophically, etc.) of traditional philosophical dialogues,
the editor very consciously avoided incorporating the word ‘dialogue’ (and ‘dialogues’)
in the title of this publication (thus effectively ruling out potential titles such as
Philosophical Dialogues and Philosophy Dialogs).
AFTER CAREFULLY REVIEWING
substantial parts of Christianus’s satisfactionist philosophy,
the editor finally decided to give the word ‘play’ (and ‘plays’)
a leading role in the title of this most playful philosophical periodical —
a gambit that hopefully not only will attract a considerable number of new readers searching for plays and philosophy,
but also will help inspire them to be more than readers, so that they, in a very real and tangible way,
practically may be able to find their fair share of ‘real satisfaction’.
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All published material in Philosophical Plays, both in the print edition
(ISSN 1654-6296) and in the online edition (ISSN 1654-6318), is
Copyright © 2007–2012 by Bo C. Klintberg. All rights reserved.
No part of these publications may be reproduced, or re-
published, or stored in a retrieval system, without
prior permission in writing from Bo C. Klintberg.
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