Pjero de Kuberteno švietimo humanistinės ištakos, olimpinių žaidynių atgaivinimo idėjos

Abstract

Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1957), famous for his literature, history, pedagogics, and sociology works, had remained the president of International Olympic Committee (IOC) for 30 years. He had profound knowledge about evolution in sport as well as political sciences and history was his intelligence too. It was his idea listing the principles to be followed by anyone, who wanted to live under Olympic ideals. Those principles were represented in 24 books, 50 booklets, and 1150 articles where Ancient Greece philosophy was the core for P. de Coubertin’s thinking and further life. P. de Coubertin followed Hegel (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) so to form an attitude about adapted philosophy – the basis for living, sport, moral, and education, and this social philosophy overgrew Hegel’s philosophy and became dominant in universities as a new education form. P. de Coubertin’s the main idea and the goal was physical education and sport competitions that may and must help to educate perfect human being; the same ideal that was aimed in Ancient Greece where any human being was considered as the whole formed of three inter-related aspects: physical, mental, and intellectual. The revival of Olympic Games was tremendous force on international level of physical education and sport. P. de Coubertin’s idea had passed the exam and became nowadays reality. Today these core Olympic ideas are also spread through philosophy (thinking), art, Olympic education, and sport. Intellectual capacity and Olympic education forces to manage innate war instinct and helps for this barbaric antagonism to be oriented towards honest human and society and changed into the principle of Fair Play – sport competitions. The aim of Olympism is for Olympic sport to serve human growth and encourage peaceful society, who cares about saving human dignity and creation itself. This global P. de Coubertin’s movement must further follow humanitarian, philosophical, and educational Olympic ideas, and this is the ideal that is worth to stay on the very top over commercialisation and politics.