Disarikan dari buku “Filsafat Ilmu Keolahragaan” (2015)
Dr. Made Pramono, M.Hum. 2/3/23
madepramono@unesa.ac.id Philosophy of Sport Mens sana in corpore sano (“a sound mind in a sound body”)
• a medium of self- or life-fulfillment
• excess strength and the root of creative living • play • an aesthetic phenomenon • ethical training • a model of an “achieving society” • a reaction compensating for and adjusting to the conditions of living in a world of industrial labor • a sign-world • a safety-value for aggression, instinctive reaction for the preservation of the race, and discharge through appetency • a means in the class struggle of increasing production and overcoming alienation • symbolized father-son conflict and substitute narcissistic satisfaction
For further development of these ideas, see Philosophies of Sport.