| （1.School of Physical Education，Jiangxi Normal University，Nanchang 330027，China；2.Zhejiang Vocational College of Posts and Telecommunications，Shaoxing 312006，China） Abstract: In two major philosophical views today, essentialism seeks for the generality and universality of things, while anti-essentialism thinks essence is an illusion. Essentialism seeks for the certain essence of competition in terms of standpoint, while anti-essentialism thinks games have no essence based on language game. In the context of culture, there is a generalized chaos in games, its uncertainty makes it difficult to seek for and figure out the es-sence of games. Therefore, there is no way to specify the substantial concepts of other things. Moreover, the differ-ences between primitive games and cultural games make the concept of game complicated and volatile. Although in terms of the form of expression, games and competition are related, essentially they are not the same thing. From the perspective of essentialism, there is no way to find the sameness of games and competition in body attribute, fun and competition. As a generalized concept of “game”, it cannot become the essential core of “competition”, hence, “the game theory of the essence of competition” is false. Competition is the teaching, learning, exercising and showing of survival skills, a technique to change nature. Lastly, the authors considered that competition is a tech-nique for bodily sports competition.
Key words: sport philosophy；competition；game；essentialism；anti-essentialism；technique |
