ABSTRACT

In this paper, I am going to present a condensed version of my theory of what sport is from my book The Philosophy of Football. In that work, I took my starting point in Bernard Suits’ celebrated, though controversial view that a game is “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles’ and a sport is a game that involves physical skills with a wide following and a wide level of stability. In the monograph, I carefully work through Suits’ theory showing which clauses of the analysis can be kept, which have to be amended and which should be rejected, while adding other elements to provide an adequate understanding of sport. Here I will not follow suit. Instead, on the scholarly issue of situating my view in the literature, I confer my reader to the book, and instead focus on presenting my own positive view of what sport is and my reasons for holding it. Sport is an extra-ordinary, unnecessary, rule-based, competitive, skill-based physical activity or practice where there is cooperation to fulfil the prelusory goal of having a competition, where mere sport participants endure or tolerate the implementation of a sport’s constitutive rules, whereas sport practitioners also aim at fulfilling sport’s lusory goal of winning, minimally not losing, whichever sport competition they partake in.

I present the idea that sport is a social historical kind and how we should understand that before addressing my suggested analysis of sport and how it fits our concept of sport and sports as we find them practiced by us.

摘要

在这篇论文中，我将简要介绍我的《足球哲学》一书中关于什么是运动的理论。. 在这项工作中，我从 Bernard Suits 著名但有争议的观点出发，即游戏是“自愿尝试克服不必要的障碍”，而运动是一种涉及身体技能的游戏，拥有广泛的追随者和广泛的水平稳定。在专着中，我仔细研究了 Suits 的理论，表明分析中哪些条款可以保留，哪些必须修改，哪些应该拒绝，同时添加其他元素以提供对体育的充分理解。这里我就不跟风了。相反，在将我的观点置于文献中的学术问题上，我让我的读者阅读这本书，而是专注于展示我自己对运动是什么以及我持有它的理由的积极看法。体育是一种超常的、不必要的、基于规则的、有竞争力的、

我提出了体育是一种社会历史类型的观点，以及我们应该如何理解这一点，然后再讨论我对体育的建议分析，以及它如何符合我们对体育和体育的概念，因为我们发现它们被我们实践了。