A Hermeneutical Analysis of the InternalistApproachin the Philosophy of Sport

• Authors: Francisco Javier Lopez Frias , Xavier Gimeno Monfort
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, we make a hermeneutical analysis of internalism, the dominant tradition in the philosophy of sports. In order to accomplish this, we identify the prejudices that guide the internalist view of sports, namely the Platonic-Analytic prejudice introduced by Suits, one of the forefathers of internalism. Then, we critically analyze four consequences of following such a prejudice: a) its reductive nature, b) the production of a unrealistic view of sports, c) the vagueness of the idea of excellence; and d) the leap from the descriptive analysis of the sporting phenomenon to the setting of normative requirements for the practice of sports.

Keywords

EN

hermeneutics; philosophy of sports; internalism; Heidegger; excellency; prejudice

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-12

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2015

received

11 - 9 - 2015

online

26 - 11 - 2015

accepted

28 - 10 - 2015

Contributors

author

Francisco Javier Lopez Frias

• College of Health and Human Development and Rock Ethics Institute The Pennsylvania State University University Park, State College, PA 16801 The United States of America
• conception and design of the study
• manuscript preparation
• obtaining funding

author

Xavier Gimeno Monfort

• University of Valencia, Spain
• acquisition of data
• analysis and interpretation of data

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/pcssr-2015-0018