The Road to Overman: A Philosophical Image of Sportsman

[[abstract]]Sporting practice itself is a kind of philosophy which derives from the result of self-survival and thinking as well as the function of great reason. It is under questions of “What is great reason?” and “How great reason can be presented by words as a kind of thinking?” that this research takes the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to construct the philosophical image of Sportsman as a sport philosophy experiment. While discussing the philosophy of Nietzsche, based on the combination of the survival and thinking, the researcher takes Also sprach Zarathustra as main text to point out that the concept of overman is an idea presented as a contrasting point to metaphysics: Departing from self-overcoming, a concept centered on human value, under the value of self-overcoming to enunciate the epistemology of perspectivism. This epistemology is based on the presumption that body is the very place to exercise the subject’s ontology. In addition, in the construction of a philosophical image of sportsman, it first adopts professional-made sport truth as a contrasting point to conduct displacement of the perspective, and further discusses the truth formation in sporting practice. Through the sport truth in practice is an existential thinking of “knowing by existing” with the characteristic of incident and contingency, the truth formation has to be involved with the sportsman’s “being state” as well as the subjectivation of truth. Secondly, with the narrative practice of subjectivation of truth and the narrative of sportsman’s going forth and back between practice and thinking to realize overman philosophy. The conclusion is that a sportsman is the one who seeks sport truth, as long as the sport road continues, a sportsman must go over various existential epistemology in sporting practice. The reason in practice is a kind of practice in existing, not merely in conception. which deals not only logical issues, but emotional, desire even subliminal issues, thus named “great reason” by Nietzsche. A sportsman is definitely a Nietzschean philosopher, an incarnation of overman philosophy, who is cogitative between thinking and practice with the philosophical image and metaphysical ambition. Hence, sportsman delves into sporting practice with a philosophical image that will dissolve after existential epistemology yet meanwhile embodies such philosophical image. After each dissolve, the sportsman puts pieces together as a new philosophical image then enters another practice to fabricate more philosophical images of sportsman in the path of seeking truth.