A Conceptualization of “Sportology”

- A Harbinger of New Wisdom

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This paper proposes the fundamental cognitive nature in “Sportology” as a new wisdom of total humanity by examining the conceptualization of it. First, the author discusses the view point of the search for new studies, and suggests the necessity for the innovation of the paradigm in established modern sciences. Second, the author discusses the social situations of sport sciences and physical education studies and suggests its limitation and self-contradiction as modern sciences and as the practical intellectual too. Because they are destined to be despised as the second class one by their mother sciences and looked down as a worthless theoretical meddling by the practical world. In order to go beyond this limitation, sport sciences and physical education studies have to establish their own and peculiar subject and methodology in the relation of the human movement as the living body. Then, “Sportology” may not be constituted as the inter-disciplinary nor the multi-disciplinary, but the trans-disciplinary. The author suggests that this point of view is very important for the humanity protection in the future world in which the techno-sciences may reach the singular point and a Mother Computer may control all over our life. The last, the author discussed the Renaissance to explore the cognitive nature of “Sportology” as the innovation model for a new wisdom. He suggests that the first Renaissance for the liberation of the intellectual and the second Renaissance for the liberation of the emotional were limited because of separately liberation of each other. Therefore, the author concludes that the conceptualization of “Sportology” will support a flourishing paradigm for the prospect of the third Renaissance, which is the liberation of the human body.