From The Grasshopper (3rd ed.), pp. 41-43 But games are, I believe, essentially different from the ordinary activities of life, as perhaps the following exchange…
Tag: Bernard Suits
Can we use Bearnard Suits’s philosophy of games to better understand baseball? Yes. Yes, we can.
Two of Bernard Suits’s early articles (“The Elements of Sport,” and “The Grasshopper: A Thesis Concerning the Moral Ideal of Man,” are stuck in books that are long out of print. I have rescued them, for Suits scholars and historians of play (and game) studies.
Wittgenstein said you can’t define games. Bernard Suits said, “Hold my beer.” And contrary to popular belief, the definition Suits developed was NOT, “The voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.”