Purposive/Aesthetic Sport: A Note on Boxing.
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- dc.contributor.author Yeomans, Marisa
- dc.contributor.author Holt, Jason
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:57:07Z
- dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:57:07Z
- dc.date.issued 2016
- dc.date.modified 2020-05-11T16:18:16Z
- dc.description.abstract Common sense, Bernard Suits, and David Best would agree that boxing is a purposive (i.e., non- aesthetic) sport. We argue, on the contrary, that boxing is in fact purposive only in some contexts (i.e., knockout) and an aesthetic sport in others (i.e., decision by judges). This is because boxing judges are empowered to give more points to a fighter not just for the quantity but the quality of strikes and of their performance in the ring in general. In other words, in bouts whose outcomes are decided by judges, a boxer’s purpose is not just to land punches, as the manner in which blows are struck (cleanly, with better ring control, etc.)—that is, how a boxer performs—figures into the awarding of points and consequent determination of outcome. This is the very hallmark of aesthetic sports. Boxing should therefore be classified instead as a “purposive/aesthetic” sport: a hybrid category that undermines a pure dichotomy between purposive and aesthetic sports.
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- dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/FairPlay/article/view/299639
- dc.identifier 2014-9255
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62671
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- dc.relation.haspart FairPlay, Revista de Filosofia, Ética y Derecho del Deporte, 2016, Núm. 7 (2016), p. 87-95
- dc.relation.haspart FairPlay, Revista de Filosofia, Ética y Derecho del Deporte, 2016, Núm. 7 (2016), p. 87-95
- dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/FairPlay/article/view/299639/389107
- dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
- dc.title Purposive/Aesthetic Sport: A Note on Boxing.
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