The Physical Cultural Implications and the Social Philosophical Issues of Mixed Martial Arts Kim sung-eun Department of Psychology Graduate School Yeungnam University (Supervised by Professor Kim Dong-kyu) Abstract The mixed martial arts are... The Physical Cultural Implications and the Social Philosophical Issues of Mixed Martial Arts Kim sung-eun Department of Psychology Graduate School Yeungnam University (Supervised by Professor Kim Dong-kyu) Abstract The mixed martial arts are being domestically spot-lighted these days as a new cultural icon by modern people who are suffering a conflict owing to a desire and a stress for victory under the fierce competition system in modern society. With being continued up until the recent times, this trend has jumps on a strong fever for commercialism and an arousing desire for watching, thereby being able to be said that the interest degree and level reached the peak. Especially, as the female mixed martial arts come to stimulate spectators' another fighting instinct and sexual aspect, it is being accelerated even women's influx into the mixed martial arts market as well as being strengthened men's interest. It will be said to have very important significance at this point of time to suggest various alternative plans available for maintaining the academic identity and minimizing the socio-cultural adverse effect as the safer and more ethical sports, with escaping from which the authorized mixed martial arts as the sphere of sports get criticism and attack socially. That is because further solidifying the academic, social and ethical requirements necessary for the development in the mixed martial arts is the indispensable task in order to promote the sustainable growth in the mixed martial arts as the sports. As pointed out in the above, this study established the objectives of research as the following contents. First, the aim is to explore the acculturation process of the mixed martial arts in the realistic aspect by seeking the historical development process in the mixed martial arts and the settlement process as the sports game. Second, the aim is to have the physical cultural aspect, which is implicated by the mixed martial arts, as the foothold of the problem posing by approaching in the aspects of the purification in aggression, of the vicarious satisfaction with a fundamental desire, and of the significance as the hybrid personal sports. Third, the aim is to suggest the social philosophical issues of the mixed martial arts and to propose a task for the solution by classifying the social philosophical issues, which are revealed through the physical cultural aspect of the mixed martial arts, into a problem of identity, a problem of the sports social ethics, and a problem of socio-cultural soundness as the martial arts sports. As for a solution of human being's aggression and violence, the efforts, which try to solve through sports, are being shown the most. For this, new sports, which were newly developed or transformed modernly, are being developed on and on. The mixed martial arts need not to lose the essential and intrinsic value. Even people require a change in perception and attitude of emphasizing the internal value rather than the external value in sports. The formation of society, which puts emphasis on the internal value of sports, may lead to being changed many things on sports and to being disappeared many dysfunctional phenomena along with a fundamental change starting from the essence and goal of sports pursued by sports philosophers, sociologists, and pedagogists. A cause for being emerged a negative opinion about the mixed martial arts is accredited to being exposed to a danger of safety enough to be concerned about a participant's body without stopping there as well as having its violence. This dangerousness is more serious than a problem of violence. Violence gives large weight merely to visual and emotional aspect. On the other hand, dangerousness is directly linked to a player's life, thereby having seriousness of a problem. The mixed martial arts are already in the real situation of being perceived as popular sports. However, the ethical discussion about this fails to keep pace with such rapid popularization. A question about ethicality in the mixed martial arts as the post-modern sports may really become 'a question with no answer.' But to accept it as the true sport, there will be a need to be progressed the continuous 'seeking ethics.' Therefore, as for the conclusions in this study, first, there will be a need to overcome the insensitive phenomenon to anger, hostility, violence, ranking-centered, and force, which are shown after watching the mixed martial arts. Second, there will be a need to escape from imitative learning, beautification in violence, and heroic myth, which take place socially through this. Third, there will be a need to establish a legally medical system for allowing the selective freedom of the press as the sound sports and for securing the stability in high-tech equipment and players, to arrange an institutional device available for maximizing human nature and to make it available for getting settled as the spectator sports by enacting the rational and normative rules. Fourth, coaches will need to carry out education and training side by side so that the reciprocal humanistic principles can be internalized by enjoying it as the value of sport itself, not what the aim is victory, through fostering right educational attitude in the mixed martial art players and through allowing them to acquire rules and regulations among players or between players and spectators. Only getting over these problems can lead to being possibly positioned as the educational and cultural sports sphere in line with modern people's dignity in which everybody enjoys and has enough, by arranging a foundation that culture and sports coexist in the 21st century.
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