The purpose of this paper is to make clear the historical facts of doping matters under the DDR government and to point out the ethical problem to be found from this doping problem.
In this paper, I will investigate the bare facts under the DDR government. It could be said that some facts have not been clear up until now and we haven't had the enough ground for these facts under the DDR government.
It could be eventually said that the doping actions that were taken by the DDR government, the body politic, is regarded as those of ‘Property of the body by others’.
I will clarify the historical facts of this doping problem by focusing on the popular paper 『Spiegel』 and the survey 『MfS und Leistungssport』. In addition, I try to reconsider afresh what / why this problem is regarded as unacceptable from the ethical point of view.
The results of this consideration are as follows.
1. The contents of the actual conditions of doping problem under the DDR government are concretely developed.
2. The ethical issues that are the problem of doping as ‘Property of the body by others” subsists in these historical facts of doping matters under the DDR government.
3. Under the modern concept of Property, especially John Locke’s concept of Property of his / her own Person, it is concluded that the problem of ‘Property of his / her own Person by others’ is not admitted in the basis of personal nature.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the surroundings of moving body based on the theory of “affordance”, that is to refine the concept of “body environment” in sport. The study also try to consider its implication into the theory of physical education and sport philosophy.
First, the concept of “affordance” presented by J. Gibson is discussed to express the meaning lurked in environment around us. Then, the environment in sport is examined in terms of two ways of talking sport which is introduced by M. Sasaki. Namely, the first manner is the way talking sport inside the body. The second is that of the border between body and environment. Especially, author concentrates to focus on the latter manner in discussing sport environment. Next, the study attempts to define the concept of “body environment” in sport. It may give us the meaning of environment found in bodily movement.
At any rate, refining this concept is an approach to understanding the lived experience in sport by its useful manner of experiential description. That is to say, it is an attempt to explore the potentiality in the enterprise educating sport. Finally, author may also inquire the significance and limitation of using experiential description of sport which is a method finding the meaning of lived movement. Then, the study may conclude that this manner of describing sport experience would be possible to apply into every educational affairs.

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