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Bernard Herbert Suits was a philosopher and professor. He was born November 25, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. Suits attended Denby High School in Detroit and went on to receive his BA at the University of Chicago, his MA in Philosophy also at the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Illinois. Suits' area of philosophic inquiry was games and gaming and he would go on to become an authority in the field. In 1957, Suits began teaching at the University of Illinois and moved on to Purdue in 1959. In 1966, Suits became an associate professor at the University of Waterloo where he would remain until his retirement in 1994.
While teaching at the University of Waterloo, Suits would hold such positions as Chair of the Waterloo Philosophy Department, Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. Suits was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1982 and was appointed Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 1995.
Outside of teaching Suits published essays in a number of journals and is best known for his book "The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia." Suits was also a visiting professor at the University of Lethbridge and the University of Bristol. In 1982, Suits was a special guest star on the TVO special "The Academy on Moral Philosophy."
Bernard Suits died in 2007.
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File consists of term papers written by Suits while he was a student. Includes:
- The implications of "self-sufficiency" as an ethical criterion: Aristotle's ethics typescript (original, 4 leaves);
- Play and value, an inquiry into the possibility of a philosophical formulation of play typescript (original, 3 leaves);
- A comparison of epicurean and stoic ethics typescript (original, 12 leaves);
- The relation of Athenian democracy to imperialism and militarism as exhibited in the comedies of Aristophanes typescript (original, 16 leaves);
- God as a source for moral dictum typescript (original, 17 leaves);
- Review of: The substance of gothic typescript (original, 5 leaves);
- Review of: Life and times of Savonarola typescript (original, 3 leaves);
- Review of: The medieval mind typescript (original, 4 leaves);
- Review of: The Holy Roman Empire typescript (original, 3 leaves);
- Review of: The divine comedy typescript (original, 3 leaves);
- The reconstruction of Protagoras typescript (original, 17 leaves);
- An appendix to the summa typescript (original, 8 leaves);
- Croce's theory of aesthetics and a comparison with Kant typescript (original, 34 leaves);
- Samuel Johnson's biographical criticism typescript (original, 7 leaves);
- John Dennis' theory of passion in the grounds of criticism in poetry typescript (original, 16 leaves);
- Richards and value & ransom and reality typescript (original, 17 leaves);
- Kant: foundations of the metaphysics of morals typescript (original, 13 leaves);
- Hume: an enquiry concerning the principles of morals typescript (original, 8 leaves).