The contribution of José María Cagical to the sport humanism

Abstract

José María Cagigal was a pioneer and decisive man in the new direction of the sport and the physical education in Spain. He contributed to its intellectual dignify and to its institutional and social consolidation. Hi can be considered like the best and more prolific contemporary thinker who has given. Abroad he possessed a big prestige, he occupied high responsibilities and he became an universal leader. Was a thinker and an intellectual who has left his mark in the areas of knowledge corresponding to the human sciences (philosophy, psychopedagogy, sociology, epistemology, and prospective). Despite frequently being considered a philosopher and a pedagogue, Cagigal cannot be professionally pigeonholed into any of the assigned disciplines, nor did he belong to any ideological tendency or movement nor any political party. Above all, he was a humanist who made use of the different human sciences and applied them to sport and to physical education, through a philosophical interpretation: the sport humanism. The aim of this work was to study the thinking of José María Cagigal in the review Citius Altius Fortius (1959-1976).