Abstract

RUBIO, Katia  and  CARVALHO, Adriano L.. Areté, fair play and the contemporary Olympic movement. Rev. Port. Cien. Desp. [online]. 2005, vol.5, n.3, pp.350-357. ISSN 1645-0523.

Sport is a cultural practice in the history of mankind since Homeric Greece. Nowadays, associated to leisure and to the use of free time, sport is recognized as a profession, main source of the cultural industry, and also stands as one of the few ways of fast social transcend. In antiquity, Olympic games were an exceptional occasion of approximation among the many Greek States, were part of the soul of the interhelenic relations, once they were equivalent to true general assemblies of these people and served as a way of expression to the areté, which meant manhood, a value that was learned not much by the teaching of behavior ways, but by the way of life of people of value. The modern Olympic movement searched, through the fair play, to revive the Greek areté. The fair play, or honest game, defined by the knight attitude that was established in the beginning of sport in England has suffered deep transformations in its ideals through the XX century. The present paper aims to retake the discussion over the origins and the development of fair play concept for the actual Olympic Movement, its relation with the Greek areté and its influence on the moral values that surround sport in actuality.

Keywords : areté; fair play; Olympic movement; Olympic studies.

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