著者

深澤 浩洋

出版者

日本体育・スポーツ哲学会

雑誌

体育・スポーツ哲学研究 (ISSN:09155104)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, no.1, pp.9-19, 1996

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This paper considers on the rule-following concept which constitutes sport games through the discussion on the others. It is meaningless to inquire why one will abide by the rules in sport. At the same time, it is disregarded to ask the motive which urges one to obey the rules from outside of sport. We consider it to be sufficient to do one's best at any rate. If the aim of rule-following was not asked, however, it would lead to a kind of tautology as follows: rules should be followed because they should be followed. Furthermore, Wittgenstein developed the skepticism about the possibility of the justification for an action by its rule. The necessity arises as to find such a condition that makes the state of rule-following possible, the condition that the necessity and the contingency coexistence in that state. For the rule-following has no sense anymore when an action accords with its rule in any case, nor the rule fill the role of itself when the accordance between an action and its rule is quite contingent. This paper, then, attempted to solve this problem by introducing the notion of the self and the others. The others take on contingency against the self in the sense that the others might do or not do the same act as the self accidentary. In the case that the self and the others coexistenced in the same dimension (e. g. the present tense), the latter were contingent as it were. If the others were in the different dimension (e. g. the past tense) from the self, they appeared as the being that the self could not deal with at one's will (<i>the absolute other</i>). The absolute other in this sense is grasped under the aspect of necessity. Consequently, the state of rule-following depends on whether the self could set these <i>others</i> in oneself.