The Authentic and Inauthentic Sport in the Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Perspectives

Authors

JIRÁSEK Ivo OBORNÝ Josef HURYCH Emanuel

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Acta Facultatis Educationis Physicae Universitatis Comenianae
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Sports Studies

Citation
Web https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/afepuc/58/1/article-p1.xml
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/afepuc-2018-0001
Keywords Sport; “sport”; TECHNÉ GYMNASTIKÉ; TECHNÉ ATHLETIKÉ; authenticity
Description The philosophical concept of hermeneutics presents the opposite pole of human mental activities than positivism. Phenomenology, together with hermeneutics, also presents a kind of opposition to the positivistic reduction of learning the world. This paper focuses on the topic of authenticity of sport from these two (hermeneutic and phenomenological) approaches. As a basic theoretical platform Martin Heidegger´s book Time and Being is used. The authors develop a specific kind of categorization of the social groups engaged in sport events via the ancient concepts of “TECHNÉ ATHLETIKÉ” and “TECHNÉ GYMNASTIKÉ”. Two different phenomena: sport and “sport” are examined within the next part of the paper. There are some reasons mentioned in conclusions coming from the hermeneutic and phenomenological approach which help us to understand and accept the opinion that a kind of return to “techné gymnastiké” can support the authentic modes of being in human approach to sport.

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