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The Spirit of Sport and Human Culture

When I was little, I didn’t like sports. On the one hand, I was lazy and didn’t feel like moving; on the other, I thought sports were too “violent,” nowhere near as quiet and elegant as intellectual activities. As a child, I did like playing chess, but what I never really understood was—why does chess count as “sports” too? As I grew older, I gradually came to understand what sports and chess have in common, and I also came to feel more and more deeply the charm of sports. Sports are not merely “exercise,” and even less merely a kind of “violence.” They can stand alongside philosophy, science, religion, and…