While the COVID-19 pandemic is still not over, 2022 saw a marked shift away from the practices and media coverage of the previous two years. And this change in focus played out on KineSophy as well. This past year, I returned to the topics that grounded this site in the … Read more
One year ago, I closed 2020 hoping for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and optimistic that we had learned some hard lessons from the previous year. While the first wish hasn’t come to fruition in 2021, I do believe the past two years have forced all of us to … Read more
Wow, 2020 has been a year. As I go through my annual project of taking stock of the year in KineSophy, everything I wrote before mid-March seems like it’s already several years old. In January, before we all realized how essential exercising indoors would become, I opined about the virtues … Read more
As the end of 2019 approaches, it’s time for my usual attempt to summarize the previous year on KineSophy. KineSophy continued to grow from its foundation, and I was able to explore new issues in health, fitness, sports, society and philosophy. I also tried to apply the ideas of KineSophy … Read more
As we move into 2019, it’s again time for me to draw some cohesive themes from KineSophy in 2018. I think 2018 saw this website grow out of its stable foundation and begin to explore new avenues of thought in health, fitness, sports, society and philosophy. In particular, I extended some … Read more
As 2017 departs, KineSophy is about to move into its sixth year of existence. And as we enter 2018, it’s time for my annual reflection on the state of the KineSophy project. With the groundwork of KineSophy laid in years past, 2017 continued my push to explore other perspectives in … Read more
At the most basic level, KineSophy is concerned with ethical arguments, that is, arguments about what we should do and how we should live, particularly in regards to physical health and fitness. The most effective arguments apply to both the general and particular. If you have an argument for why … Read more
2015 saw the end of one thread of the KineSophy project and the start of another. When I began this blog in 2012 with the aim of exploring connections between philosophy and physical fitness, I soon began to recognize ways in which a philosophical approach could be applied to redeem … Read more
At the end of 2013, I offered a rough sketch of a comprehensive ethical theory that includes both other-directed, moral virtues, such as honesty and justice, and self-directed, non-moral virtues, such as intelligence and fitness. Starting from my proposed three ethical precepts for human movement and the need to scale … Read more
With 2013 and the first year of my KineSophy project drawing to a close, I decided to use this month’s essay to summarize the ground I’ve covered in the past eleven months, in the hopes of giving these pieces some appearance of cohesion. Working under the general mission statement of … Read more