Sports are a great way to keep your body fit and healthy. They also teach you many important lessons about life and how to be a good person. They help you develop respect for your opponent, killer instinct, never give up attitude and leadership skills.
Sport is an activity that involves physical exercise and skill as well as competition or social participation in which rules and patterns of behavior governing the activity are formally established by organisations. There are many different forms of sport and the definition of a particular form may vary between sources.
Observers usually perceive sport to be socially oriented and often have an association with physical exertion or performance measures. Some people also consider sport to be an artistic expression of human nature and culture.
Athletes, for example, compete in competitions to achieve specific goals, such as winning a race or crossing a line first. The result should not be predetermined, and the two sides should have equal opportunity to win.
Philosophical studies of sport have been developed both as a descriptive and normative discipline (Simon, 2009). Descriptive theories aim to describe the central concepts of sport. Normative theories attempt to understand the nature of sport and explain how it should be.
Philosophical approaches to sport have taken many forms, from’system-based’ or ‘pedagogical’ analysis, through to more recent research that draws on phenomenology and neuroscience. Increasingly, philosophers are examining the relationship between sport and art.