PT Journal
AU Jirasek, I
TI The space for seeking the meaning of movement activities and the meaning of the human way of being: Movement culture
SO Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Gymnica
PY 2006
BP 95
EP 99
VL 36
IS 2
DE Meaning; meaning of life; meaning of movement; movement culture
AB The paper focuses on the horizon of meaning as it can be experienced by human beings through movement activities. Although the phenomenon of meaning is not producible by natural sciences, it does not mean that philosophy could not question its validity. The meaning is apprehensible in an existential situation and it comes out clearest at the moment of the loss of the possibilities related to the concrete beingness. The meaning of life can be found in four possible areas. The answer to the question asking about the meaning is religion; the accumulation of experience situations; active work or moral acts; and the rejection of this question. The meaning of life is introspectable in the field of movement culture and it is closely connected with the topic of authentic existence. Metheny offers a distinctive symbology of the meaning of movement. She uses the neologisms of kinescept, kinestruct and kinesymbol highlighting the originality of movement experiences that cannot be transferred onto any other cognitive form. It is possible to look for the meaning of movement in the connection with the meaning of life in the various fields of movement culture as schematically summarized in the final chapter.
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