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The hermeneutics of sport: limits and conditions of possibility of our understandings of sport
Francisco Javier López FríasXavier Gimeno Monfortsubject
Philosophy of sport05 social sciencesPhysical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation030229 sport sciencesFacticityUnitary stateTask (project management)EpistemologyPhenomenology (philosophy)03 medical and health sciencesPhilosophyMeaning (philosophy of language)0302 clinical medicine0502 economics and businessOntologyHermeneuticsSociology050212 sport leisure & tourismdescription
AbstractIn this paper, linguistic-analytic philosophy has been identified as the dominant methodology in the philosophy of sport. The hermeneutics of sport is contrasted with linguistic-analytic philosophy by analyzing Heidegger’s view of Truth. In doing so, two views of philosophy are compared: ontology or description. Sport hermeneutics’ task has to do with description. Hermeneutical explanations of sport attempt to describe the facticity of sport. Such a facticity is formed by three moments: embodiment, capabilities, and tradition. They are not components of sport that can be identified as essential components but rather, they are identifiable only for analytic purposes. These three above-mentioned elements cannot be identified as elements, because they are intrinsically intertwined forming a unitary network of meaning. The task of sport hermeneutics is to describe the different relationships that compose such a network of meaning. In doing so, sport is a humane activity linked to the constitutive huma...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-10 | Sport, Ethics and Philosophy |