(School of Physical Education,Shandong Normal University,Jinan 250014,China) Abstract: The authors studied the essence of sports spirit from such 3 perspectives as the noumenon, social existence and extension of sport spirits, and by analyzing and comparing the functions of ideology in promoting western sport in different periods, summed up five major sport spirits, namely, freedom and equality spirit, fair competition spirit, ex-cellence pursuance spirit, and sportsmanship spirit, and analyzed ideological sources of the five sport spirits. Key words: sport philosophy;sport spirit;western sport |