Review article

Sport, game, purposefulness

Ivana Zagorac orcid.org/0000-0003-4487-2102 ; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Matija Mato Škerbić orcid.org/0000-0003-0006-4533 ; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet

Abstract

The nature of the connection between sports and games is the subject of numerous discussions. The theories range from the claim that every sport is a game (while every game is not a sport) to the attitudes that abolish any connection between modern sports and games. The first part of the paper discusses the connection between sports and games through the analysis of a thesis that claims that sport is a game. It is pointed to the definitions and demarcations of the terms sport, game and play, referring to the texts of Bernard H. Suits, which are critically evaluated. The second part of the paper examines the issue of the purpose of sport. It discusses the outer and inner purpose of sport. Special attention is paid to the viewpoints of “wide internalism” and “historicist conventionalism” and the thesis that sport is an end in itself. The last part of the text considers the arguments of Eugen Fink who claims that game is an end in itself.

Keywords

sport; game; playing; purpose of sport; purpose of game

Hrčak ID:

206869

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/206869

Publication date:

1.10.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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