운동의 개념에 대한 철학적 고찰

Philosophical Approach on the Concept of Human Movement

[PURPOSE] The purpose of this study was to illuminate the philosophical concept of human movement which is the scientific basis of kinesiology. [METHODS] To attain this end, this study focused on Aristotle s natural philosophy. According to Aristotle who completed the first philosophical investigation of motion, kinesis(motion) is present in dynamis which is the comple-mentary concept of energeia . Especially, the essential quality of kinesis that exists as dynamis opened the way for a new inter-pretation of the potential of the human movement. [RESULTS] Based on this philosophical consideration, the conceptual differ-ence between human movement and sport or physical education was discussed by the deductive method. Human movement has a completely different category compared to sport. Sport exists as culture; on the other hand human movement exists as external-ization of movement form . And consideration of the conceptual difference between human movement and physical education provided the possibility of academic independence of kinesiology that has been regarded as a subfield under physical education. [CONCLUSIONS] This macroscopic approach will cast new light on the essence and social role of the kinesiology in Korea.