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IMO, Alignment should be "Fill in the blank"
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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8291086" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>A defender of the sort of approach you criticise here (I read you as being critical of fascism, which is not an unreasonable position for you to take!) might try to defend a more general scepticism about a certain approach to, or notion of, truth. I think there is more than a hint of this in some strands of fascist thought - eg an integration of a theory of power with a theory of knowledge, and a resulting scepticism that there is a power-independent "truth" available to be known. (There are also non-fascist philosophies that embody strands a little like this: some forms of pragmatism, for instance; and Foucault.)</p><p></p><p>The reason I point this out is not to start a debate about the philosophy of truth and knowledge, but to point out that Gygax's alignment definitions rest upon a premise that there is such a thing as truth independent of power. It rests on a similar premise, too, about beauty (ie that beauty is not <em>merely</em> a construct generated by social arrangements).</p><p></p><p>I think those can be workable premises for FRPGing, though one has to be careful with them because of their capacity to bump into or even feed into other concerns that are quite active at the moment arouind some received fantasy tropes! They do show that keeping alignment is not-zero cost - and is not zero-cost even if we put aside the pratical issues of how it works in play and just think about its intellectual dimension and how it frames and shapes the ideas that are part of the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8291086, member: 42582"] A defender of the sort of approach you criticise here (I read you as being critical of fascism, which is not an unreasonable position for you to take!) might try to defend a more general scepticism about a certain approach to, or notion of, truth. I think there is more than a hint of this in some strands of fascist thought - eg an integration of a theory of power with a theory of knowledge, and a resulting scepticism that there is a power-independent "truth" available to be known. (There are also non-fascist philosophies that embody strands a little like this: some forms of pragmatism, for instance; and Foucault.) The reason I point this out is not to start a debate about the philosophy of truth and knowledge, but to point out that Gygax's alignment definitions rest upon a premise that there is such a thing as truth independent of power. It rests on a similar premise, too, about beauty (ie that beauty is not [I]merely[/I] a construct generated by social arrangements). I think those can be workable premises for FRPGing, though one has to be careful with them because of their capacity to bump into or even feed into other concerns that are quite active at the moment arouind some received fantasy tropes! They do show that keeping alignment is not-zero cost - and is not zero-cost even if we put aside the pratical issues of how it works in play and just think about its intellectual dimension and how it frames and shapes the ideas that are part of the game. [/QUOTE]
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