Richard Power’s Philosophical Thoughts in Prisoner’s Dilemma  

作　　者：梁渊[1] 陈益[1,2] 魏澜 LIANG Yuan;CHEN Yi;WEI Lan(Foreign Languages School,Chongqing University of Science and Technology,Chongqing 401331,China)

机构地区：[1]重庆科技学院外国语学院 [2]西南大学

出　　处：《海外英语》2020年第11期213-214,220,共3页Overseas English

基　　金：重庆市社科规划项目“美国后现代作家理查德•鲍威尔斯生态哲学思想研究”(编号:2019WT37);重庆市教委人文社科规划项目“马克思生态哲学视域下的理查德•鲍尔斯生态思想研究”(编号:185SKGH152);重庆科技学院科研基金“马克思生态哲学视域下的理查德•鲍尔斯生态思想研究”(编号:CK2017py001)。

摘　　要：The“prisoner’s dilemma”illustrates that everyone is rationally thinking about maximizing their own interests and taking their own best strategies,but the end result is counterproductive.In Prisoner’s Dilemma Richard Powers describes multiformareas of dilemma;to lose balance;to make choices;and ask each other:what to do next?It is a master trope for relaying the permanent impasse or dilemma of cooperation versus defection.In most cases,the prisoner's dilemma is more about the number of defeats in the game,and even a major loss of society.Individual rationality is likely to be a collective disregard,and if everyone is acting on the principle of self-interest,it is often the result that everyone is lost.Powers expresses his philosophical insight:Until a cooperative instead of antagonistic solution is collectively agreed upon,we still remain imprisoned in an interminable and oppressive struggle and conflict decided by self-interest and rational control,which is also a moral response to historical consciousness of postmodernism.

关 键 词：Prisoner’s Dilemma DEFECTION COOPERATION Philosophical Thoughts 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]