| （1.School of Literature and Law，Dalian University of Technology，Dalian 116024，China；2.School of Physical Education，Nanjing Normal University，Nanjing 210046，China) Abstract: On the basis of rethinking the nature of contemporary competitive sports, the authors concluded that the loss of the human body is the root cause for the dissimilation of its nature. Then, by introducing such core concepts of western body philosophy as body appearance, body cognition and body symbol, the authors put a corresponding body philosophy interpretation on the nature of competitive sports which originated from the west likewise and based on body activities. In this research the authors concluded that under the background of existing researches on the nature of competitive sports, the awakening of body existence and the return of body status in competitive sports are the nature of the body in terms of competitive sports, and specifically embodied in the release and generation of the body, the cognition and exceeding of the body, the social characteristics and cultural loads of the body.
Key words: sport philosophy；competitive sports；body philosophy；nature of sports |
