Physical Culture and Sports in the Context of Human Incompleteness

The author analyzes the reasons of the existence of physical culture and sportsfrom the point of view of human needs. Among the variety of these needs he seeks the key one, which allows existing of physical cultureand sports as self-valuable phenomena. V.B. Barabanova analyses the approaches to the reasons of sport from the point of view ofhuman needs. She points out that sport loses its intrinsic value and becomes an instrumental phenomenon when one explains the occurrenceof sport genetically. In contrast, Barabanova asserts that physical culture and sports express human need for self-improvement,self-realization. In his turn, the author considers the existential-ontological roots of this need. He bases on the notion about the human asa creature that is not complete, that is constantly striving to go beyond oneself. Using the concept of the human form, the author showsthat the human can be considered as a self-causal phenomenon. In other words, the condition of the human is the human himself. That iswhy the human is not something complete, once given. The aspiration to overcome ones incompleteness is an existential feature of thehuman, ones basic existential need. According to the author, this incompleteness is the reason and driving force of all human culture inits diverse manifestations of specific forms. If one considers the human need for self-realization as the principal reason of existence ofphysical culture and sports, in this case they really can be interpreted as self-valuable phenomena. The author shows that the humannature, besides incompleteness, also includes another important quality - non-predetermination. Actual, absolute determinacy cannotexist in human life, because the human depends on many factors; and the human is not able to follow and take into account all of them.In the opinion of the author, the human non-predetermination is the reason of the dualism of transgressive art (V. B. Barabanova),which may lead to the destruction of the already created. The sphere of physical culture and sports is the area of the transgressive art,because it is connected with the expansion of the limits of physical and mental opportunities of the human. Hence, there is a risk ofcrossing (especially in professional sports) certain limits, beyond which the human in humans can be destroyed. It is possible, for aspirationto self-realization is natural for every human, but it exists as a possibility that might not be realized.

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