Keyword: «corporeality»

The article considers the ontological dimension of the phenomenon of computer games and their role in the perception of modern man in the world and himself. Describes the characteristic features of the ontological computer game as a virtual world that has an intangible character. Reveals the positive and negative features of computer games in the formation of the meaning of human life.

The content of Franz Kafka's novel "The Castle" is analyzed from the position of- metaphysical discourse, as a complex commentary, which reveals a certain sequence of the orig¬inal ideas of the author. Metaphysics allows us to determine the limits of the action of external causes and the structure of the temporal order, in which another course of events, not defined by the "arrow of time," is revealed. Acting characters of the novel "Castle" in fact lead a metaphysi¬cal game set not only by a system of social hierarchies, but rather by the metaphysical sophisti-cation of participants.