By Cesar R. Torres
The Bloomsbury better half to the Philosophy of game beneficial properties especially commissioned essays from a staff of prime overseas students. The ebook, through supplying an summary of the advances within the philosophical figuring out of recreation (and similar practices), serves as a degree of the advance of the philosophy of activity however it additionally constitutes an expression of the discipline's cutting-edge.
Includes a serious research of the old improvement of philosophic rules approximately activity, 3 essays at the study tools commonly utilized by activity philosophers, twelve essays that deal with very important concerns on the leading edge of key learn parts, in addition to 4 essays on issues of destiny disciplinary quandary.
Also includes a word list of keywords and ideas, an essay on assets on hand to researchers and practitioners, an essay on careers possibilities within the self-discipline, and an intensive annotated bibliography of key literature.
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William James, The Moral Equivalent of War (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1910). , Ralph Barton Perry (New York: Longmans, Green, 1943), 216– 37. Mark Dyreson, ‘Nature by Design: American Ideas about Sport, Energy, Evolution and Republics’, Journal of Sport History 26 (1999): 447– 70. John Dewey, The School and Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1900), 28. , The Cambridge Companion to Dewey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Scott Kretchmar, ‘Philosophy of Sport’, in The History of Exercise and Sport Science, John D.
The German neo-Thomist Josef Pieper took Huizinga’s anti-modern tendencies to their logical conclusion in a 1948 essay entitled ‘Leisure, The Basis of Culture’. Pieper contended that modern societies through their conviction that work served as the primary purpose of human life and their devotion to an arid utilitarianism that eroded classical notions of the good life had lost contact with the central reality of human existence. Pieper asserted that only a rediscovery of classical notions of leisure and play, complete with the sacred connotations they implied, could re-enchant the modern cosmos.
A complex and sometimes chaotic and contradictory rejection of the theologies and institutions of the Catholic Church, the Reformation transformed the social, political and intellectual traditions as well as the religious practices of the West. Protestant reformers had far less interest in the Renaissance project of excavating Greco-Roman worldviews. 39 Ironically, many Protestants eventually arrived at similar destinations as their Renaissance counterparts on the issue of the role of sport in the education of good citizens for the modern cosmos – in spite of their aversion to the reliance of their scholarly opponents on rereading ancient paeans to arete.