아리스토텔레스의 체육사상(9): 스포츠 중용 = Artistotle`s thought of physical education(9): sport and golden mean

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This paper was approached to demonstrate the logicality of the golden mean as a condition for happiness in sport based on Aristotle philosophy. Aristotle divided the attitude into three conditions such as excess, deficiency, and intermediate. Among these conditions, then, two are vices-one of excess, one of deficiency- and one, the mean, is virtue. The meaning of the golden mean is that the intermediate relative to us, not in the object that is not calculated by mathematical method. The mean, however, is changed by situation or purpose at the right times, about the right things, and toward right people as well. To explain the golden mean, I tried to analyze three virtues, win, pleasure, honor, which are things as the results of sport activity. First, To take the winning which is the articulate purpose for sporting event, we should take bravery instead of coward and rashness. Second, if we get the pleasure through sport, we have to keep a look out for insensible and intemperate attitude from deficiency and excess but keep the golden mean position, it is temperance. Last, the honor also pursued by sport activity is the virtue may be approach by the golden mean, magnanimity, neither deficiency, pusillanimity nor excess, vanity. Accordingly, I expect that if we do sport in the golden mean position, sport will become the virtue which contribute for happiness.