Tag: Constantino Pereira Martins
Beyond the Finishing Line: Sports and Human Rights
This article explores the intersection of sports and human rights, illustrating how sports have evolved into a critical component of society, overcoming the outdated perspective viewing sports as leisure or competitive pursuits, recognizing their role as fundamental rights, reinforced by international frameworks like the Olympic Charter and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These advancements highlight sports’ capacity to promote physical and mental well-being and social inclusion.
Big waves, big questions: Philosophical implications in the surfing experience
Surf is probably one of the steadiest-growing sports in the world, maybe because surfing isn’t just about sports or physical activity. It’s about a culture, a newborn tribe, and a collective identity that thrives within the strength of a global outdoor community. Constantino Pereira Martins’ article tries to follow surf’s preliminary philosophical questions, between being, time, body, and space, but also to establish an unbreakable bond towards phenomenology and spirituality, towards a sacrificial athletic religious experience.
Broken body: A philosophical anthropology inquiry into fighting
This essay by Constantino Pereira Martins delves into the multifaceted meanings of the word “heart”, particularly its philosophical and metaphorical association in combat sports. Symbolically linked to courage, this connection traces back to ancient Greek philosophy, portraying the heart as a rational and natural source of virtue and bravery. The essay employs a blend of pragmatism and mysticism, drawing from the experiences and testimonies of Muay Thai fighters and trainers.
Back to the basics: On ethics, football, and youth
With a pedagogical objective, this article by Constantino Pereira Martins and Luísa Ávila da Costa seeks to think and explore ethics in a way accessible to the common, non-philosophical reader, deconstructing and challenging the usual weight of the classical tradition and translating it to direct and fundamental questioning. This basic structure enables the presentation of the problem through seven statements, each open to singular or unified discussions regarding ethics in general or within specific pragmatic cases.
