THE ESSENCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPETITION: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT

Abstract

Throughout his life, a person goes through a significant path of self-establishment and selfaffirmation. Its improvement depends on many factors. Starting with the improvement of one's own intellectual abilities, continuing with the increase in the level of physical skill, a person always takes steps towards his own «self-improvement». This total contribution to oneself and one's own development will be the measu re that a person is able to bring to the public platform and, thanks to it, enter into various forms of demonstration of one's own excellence, perfection or skill in any of the spheres of life. In this investigation, we intend to substantiate the princi ple of competition in the context of its philosophical understanding and to prove the fact that competition plays a significant role in the development of personality. In order to understand the specifics of this princi ple, it is necessary to dive into those forms of meaning that are concentrated in this almost metaphorically artifactual concept. This is due, for example, to the fact that competition is often reduced to the banality of rivalry. Therefore, there is a need to understand precisely the competitive characteristics and the foundation on which they grow. In modern society, competition is not the need of every person. Or the appearance that it has is far from exemplary, for example, the same ideal of agon. And so, if you understand the essence of this phenomenon, you can understand that a challenge in the form of a competition can be done only by a perfect person, or by someone who has a strong spirit and strives for self-improvement.