Abstract

This study’s main focus on the view and the essential elements of physical and spiritual culture in philosopher’s works from ancient times until the end of the 20th century. This paper presents philosopher’s opinions on physical culture’s specific aspects, including physical education, sports, recreation and other border areas of the individual’s physical and spiritual activity. The references for this study on philosopher’s opinions are mainly from secondary sources. A concise statement of these philosopher’s work refers to the period before the New era, regarding Xenophanes, Socrates, Cliton, and Marcus Tallies Cicero. Then philosophers of the modern era, Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, John Lobok, and the most prominent former Yugoslavs philosopher of the 20th century, Branislav Petronijevic. This study is not a critical review but a summary of the most influential thinkers’ views, from the historical aspect of the study preoccupation.

Highlights

  • We have often faced with the question, what is philosophy? Individuals in our team gave different answers to this question

  • We quote the opinion of Karl Jaspers, who believed that the meaning of philosophy is: “- to see the reality at its source; -to dare, in a fight that would be loved, to communicate between man and man, through their aspirations for truth; -that the mind has to be patient and always kept awake ...”

  • An inspiring notion we find in Kierkegaard, about what has to hide in a personal trainer, educator. He says that “the teacher is God and the truth.” (Kierkegaard & Petronijevic, 1983). He is the most known Yugoslav philosopher, and when reading his work, we come into thinking about the emotions that accompany each entity and the training process

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INTRODUCTION

We have often faced with the question, what is philosophy? Individuals in our team gave different answers to this question. He says that “the teacher is God and the truth.” (Kierkegaard & Petronijevic, 1983) He is the most known Yugoslav philosopher, and when reading his work, we come into thinking about the emotions that accompany each entity and the training process. He wright on the “superiority of the spiritual sense over the body.”. The real miracle was how many philosopher’s researchers gone over essential thoughts, such as the body and spirit culture This time, we would not go beyond the philosophical directions of individual philosophers. We will quote some of the philosophers mentioned above, from whose thoughts the physical to the spiritual culture has seen, which determines the only philosophical directions

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