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Philosophy of sport of persons with special needs - PKIN221N
Title: Filozofie sportu OSP
Guaranteed by: Kinantropologie (51-400100)
Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, MC [HT]
Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D. (10.05.2015)
The course introduces basic themes relating to the topic of sport in general and sport of people with a disability from the philosophical perspective. Its content deals with understanding sport and the human being in movement, and it explores the whole issue of the meaning of sports in human life and ideals in sport. The main topics are helath, sports in nature, and spirituality in sport. Part of the course is ethics of sport and presentation of ways of teaching of ethics of sport.
Literature -
Last update: Jiří Krasilov (29.11.2013)

COUBERTIN, P. de: Olympism. Selected Writings. Lausanne: IOC, 2000.

DESCARTES, R. Meditations on First Philosophy. (J. Cottingham, Trans.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

GIRGINOV, V. and PARRY, J. The Olympic Games Explained. London: Routledge, 2005.

HEIDEGGER, M. Phenomenological Interpretations with Respect to Aristotle: Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation. In T. Kisiel and T. Sheehan (Eds.), Becoming Heidegger. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007, pp. 150-184.

HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2001.

KRETCHMAR, S. Practical Philosophy of Sport and Physical Activity. Champaign, Il.: Human Kinetics, 2005.

LOLAND, S. The logic of progress and the art of moderation in competitive sports. In Tännsjö and Tamburrini (Eds.). Values in Sport. London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 39-56.

MARTÍNKOVÁ, I. and HSU, L. Justification of Dangerous Sports and the Question of Values. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 93-99

MARTÍNKOVÁ, I. and PARRY, J. The Double Instrumentality of Sport. Studies in Physical Culture and Tourism, 2011, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 25-32.

MARTÍNKOVÁ, I. and PARRY, J. Two Ways of Conceiving Time in Sports. Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Gymnica, 2011, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 23-31.

MERLEAU-PONTY, M. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge, 2004.

MORGAN, J.M. and MEIER, K. (Eds.). Philosophic Inquiry in Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1988.

PARRY, J. et al. (Eds.). Sport and Spirituality: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2008.

PATOČKA, J. Body, Community, Language, World. (Trans. E. Kohák) Chicago and La Salle, Ill: Carus Publishing Company, 1998.

PLATÓN: dialogues

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Mgr. Martin Komarc, Ph.D. (28.05.2019)
Credit Requirements
A test (questions with free answers) based on lectures and recommended reading.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D. (10.05.2015)

1. Instroduction to philosophy of sport - method, topics, the concept of kinanthropology.

2. Understanding of the human being from the point of view of existence, wholeness of the human being.

3. The human being: body and movement - various concepts.

4. Definition of sport. The role of sport rules. Game a play.

5. Aims and meaning of sport. Ideals in sport. Kalokagathia.

6. Philosophical basics of Olympism.

7. Competition and sport. Sport and instrumentality.

8. Sport and the problem of health. Different concepts of health.

9. Sport and nature. Dangerous sports.

10. Sport and spirituality. Philosophical basics of martial arts.

11. Ethics of sport - deontology, utilitarism, virtues ethics.

12. Ethics of sport - values in sport.

13. Teaching ethics of sport.

14. Revision.

 
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