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Hero and Antihero

An Ethic and Aesthetic Reflection of the Sports

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ID12966237
AuthorsCarlos Rey Pérez (0000-0002-7611-4915, Universidade de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume80
Issue1
Pages48-56
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhysical Culture and Sport Studies and Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1899-4849 • E-ISSN: 2081-2221
PublisherDe Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.2478/pcssr-2018-0025
OpenAlexW2916034673
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

In Ancient Greece, the figure of the hero was identified as a demigod, possessed of altruistic and virtuous deeds. When Pierre de Coubertin reinstated the Olympic Games, the athlete was personified as a modern hero. Its antithesis, the anti-hero, has more virtue that defects, no evil but he does not care on the means to achieve his goals. In the eyes of everyone involved in sports competition, these characters captivate and at the same time, create conflicts of ethics and aesthetics. The purpose of this paper is to perform an ethical reflection linked to principles that contribute for the human growth and accomplishment, as well as the aesthetic on the perception of the sensitive, reverberated by sensations and feelings emerging from athletes. Connecting the ethic with the aesthetic spheres, we could have in the sports a phenomenon walking toward a common point between moral and aesthetic, between the good and the beauty

Aesthetics · Antithesis · Art · Beauty · Epistemology · Feeling · HERO · Kindness · Literature · Perception · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · Doping in Sports · Law · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport Psychology and Performance

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Citations per year0,25
Citation span2022 - 2022 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
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