Volume 13, Number 3 · August 21, 1969
Locker Room Metaphysics
By Anthony Quinton
Sport: A Philosophic Inquiry
by Paul Weiss
Southern Illinois University Press, 274 pp., $7.50
Man, Sport and Existence: A Critical Analysis
by Howard S. Slusher
Lea and Febiger, 243 pp., $8.00
How far can philosophy be subdivided into departmental pieces? Can there be a philosophy of anything? These questions are inspired by the books by Paul Weiss and Howard Slusher, each of which proclaims itself to be a pioneering contribution to the philosophy of sport. Not all that long ago the recognized divisions of philosophy were logic, metaphysics, and ethics, three territories whose frontiers had been authoritatively drawn by Aristotle (the subjects named in his other main treatises, physics and politics, for example, having come under new, non-philosophical management). Until the last couple of decades little had been done to elaborate this trinity of disciplines beyond dividing metaphysics into ontology and epistemology and tacking on aesthetics as a poor relation to ethics.
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