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In a wide-ranging study of unusual interest, Paul Weiss, Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, applies the principles and methods of philosophy to athletics. Every culture, he notes, has games of some kind; few activities seem to interest both children and young men as much as sports do; and few attract so many spectators, rich and poor. Yet none of the great philosophers, claiming to take all knowledge and being as their province, have made more than a passing reference to sport, in part, Professor Weiss suggests, because they thought that what pleased the vulgar was not worth sustained study by the leisured. This seminal book breaks new ground and explores new paths: psychological and sociological forms of human behavior exhibited in games; the physiology of athletics, and the efforts of training and conditioning; and the motivation of athleticsthe rhythm and aims of contests and games, and the meaning of team play. More importantly, however, Professor Weisss unique contributions lie in his discussions of the distinct contributions that sport makes to civilization. Professor Weiss discusses at length such topics as the Olympic Games and men and women as amateur and professional athletesand their sacrifices, defeats, and humiliations. And he delineates the stages the athlete must go through in his progress toward self-completion.

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title:Sport; a Philosophic Inquiry
author:Weiss, Paul.
publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin:0809344394
print isbn13:9780809344390
ebook isbn13:9780585186689
language:English
subjectSports--Philosophy.
publication date:1969
lcc:GV706.W4eb
ddc:796/.01
subject:Sports--Philosophy.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS OFPaul Weiss
books
The Nature of Systems / Reality /
Nature and Man / Man's Freedom /
Modes of Being / Our Public Life /
The World of Art / Nine Basic Arts /
History: Written and Lived / Religion and Art /
The God We Seek /
Philosophy in Process, Vol. 1: 1955-1960 /
Philosophy in Process, Vol. 2: 1960-1964 /
Philosophy in Process, Vol. 3: March-November 1964 /
The Making of Men
with others
American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow /
Science, Philosophy, and Religion /
Moral Principles of Action /
American Philosophers at Work /
Dimensions of Mind /
History and Philosophy /
Right and Wrong: A Philosophical Dialogue Between Father and Son
Editor, with Charles Hartshorne
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (six volumes)
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Sport
A Philosophic Inquiry
by Paul Weiss
southern illinois university press
carbondale and edwardsville
feffer & simons, inc.
london and amsterdam
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Copyright 1969, by Southern Illinois University Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Andor Braun
Standard Book Number 8093-4439-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 69-15326
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for Marcia, Lisa, and Michael
"under whose benign
auspices..."
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Preface
I am not an athlete. For a number of years, however, I have thought about sports, watched some of them, and have taken part in a few in a minor way. Recently, I have had the opportunity to discuss questions in this area with a number of coaches, athletes, and devoted spectators. I have also read articles and books in related fields, have attended training sessions, and have chatted with players in locker rooms. There has been a remarkable willingness on the part of coaches and players to help me understand what was happening. Some of my early judgments have consequently been discarded and others replaced, sometimes by those having an almost opposite emphasis.
On physiological and related issues there are, fortunately, a number of excellent studies. Apart from these, I have not found much knowledge or insight in the literature. A considerable portion of it is anecdotal in nature, content to recall high moments in various games, or to convey the somewhat elusive personality of athletes and coaches. What little history there is, is mainly occupied with noting the times and places at which records were made. Yet records, when detached from the adventure of achieving them, are only empty numbers. The best writings are technical. They offer hints and advice for improving skills or for avoiding dangers and obstacles in the way of excellent performances. But they leave a place for only an occasional idea, and this is usually borrowed and rather frayed.
I soon found myself in an endless desert through much of which, I am sorry to say, I had to make my way without compass or guide. I had to proceed alone, and try to think through the entire enterprise afresh. Some protection and guidance was, fortunately, provided by previous re-
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flections on the nature of man, the aims of education, and the thrust of a number of activities and disciplines which seemed to have some relevance to sport.
After considerable struggle and a number of false starts I completed a draft of a book and sent it to a number of interested coaches, directors, athletes, and philosophers. Their comments and corrections made me see how badly I had managed in my first attempt. I thereupon rewrote the entire work from beginning to end. The advance made over the previous account owes much to what I have learned from Ethan Allen, Richard Bernstein, John Blum, John W. Loy, Joseph Pullo, Eric Segal, Betty Spears, H. Vogelsinger, J. E. Williamson, and Earle Zeigler. I have also benefited from the unstinting generosity so characteristic of Robert and DeLaney Kiphuth and their staff. I have been granted the privilege of using the facilities of Sports Illustrated, where I was thoughtfully guided and helped by John Tibby. A grant by the Carnegie Corporation has made it possible for me to collect a good deal of data, to get this book ready for the press, and to allow me to continue my investigations both here and abroad. But I am most in debt to Arleen and Carleton Dallery, Robert Ehman, J. E. Genasci, E. Jokl, S. Kezerian, I. C. Lieb, W. E. Steinkraus, Richard Sewall, Vernon Sternberg, and Jonathan Weiss for their meticulous and sometimes line by line examination of the original text. I wish I knew how to do more justice to their wide knowledge and illuminating observations.
The present study makes but a beginning in a new enterprise, the examination of sport in terms of principles which are to be at once revelatory of the nature of sport and pertinent to other fields-indeed, to the whole of things and knowledge. The result is a work in philosophy, and not in sport. It is a work in philosophy just as a philosophy of history or a philosophy of art is a work in philosophy and not in history or in art. This need not mean that it must be without value to those who are primarily concerned with sport and not with philosophy. It is, in fact, one of my hopes that this study will prove worthwhile to anyone who interests himself in sport as a spec-
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