Abstract

The article presents a social-philosophical reflection of sport in the context which clarified the issues, theoretical and methodological foundations of sport areal the human dimension sports activities that is based on competitiveness as institutionalized social practice; it defines the essence of sports as a specific means of measuring human abilities, his Ludinovo essence; it is proved that sport acts as a vehicle for the transformation of nature human as a social individual and requires the establishment to implement of its intrinsic forces luminometric forms of human activity; disclosed is a social-cultural potential of sport as a social practice, based on the humanistic essence of sports activities and sports life; reveals the cultural meanings of sport as a potential ludvinovo development and possibilities of humanization as a social practice as a factor in his the human dimension.