Hero and Antihero: An Ethic and Aesthetic Reflection of the Sports

Author:

Perez Carlos Rey1

Affiliation:

1. University of Sao Paulo , Brazil

Abstract

Abstract 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.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management,Applied Psychology,Education,Cultural Studies

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