The paper focuses on exploring the relationship that can be developed between revolution and sports. Specifically, it aims to identify, present, analyze, and systematize the philosophical and pedagogical perspectives formulated by philosophers who lived and presented their ideas during revolutionary periods. The study delves into a) bodily education during the French Revolution, which contributed liberal and radical ideas, significantly altering the trajectory of modern societies. In particular, the views of representatives from the European Enlightenment, the English empiricist J. Locke, and (...) the French physiocrat philosopher J.J. Rousseau are presented; b) physical education during the Greek Revolution, which aimed to awaken the Greeks through the dissemination of Enlightenment ideas; and c) physical education in modern revolutions. It is observed that in the ideas formulated during these historical periods, physical education served specific purposes, treating the individual as a whole, encompassing both body and mind. (shrink)

Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy is a collection of essays that are all concerned with major figures and topics in the early modern philosophy. Most of the essays are concerned, more specifically, with the philosophy of David Hume (1711-1776). The sixteen essays included in this collection are divided into five parts. These parts are arranged under the headings of: (1) Metaphysics and Epistemology; (2) Free Will and Moral Luck; (3) Ethics, Virtue and Optimism; (4) Skepticism, Religion and Atheism; and (...) (5) Irreligion and the Unity of Hume’s Thought. A particularly important theme running through many of these essays is the subject of Hume’s irreligious aims and intentions. The fifth and final part of the collection is devoted to an articulation and defence of this specific understanding of Hume’s philosophical thought. (shrink)

In the replies to my critics that follow I offer a more detailed account of the specific papers that they discuss or examine. The papers that they are especially concerned with are: “The Material World and Natural Religion in Hume’s Treatise” (Ryan) [Essay 3], “Hume’s Skepticism and the Problem of Atheism” (Fosl) [Essay 12], and “Hume’s Philosophy of Irreligion and the Myth of British Empiricism (Gautier) [Essay 16].