From “What is Sport” to “What is Philosophy of Sport”——An Inquire from “Whether E-Sports is a Sport”

The controversy of “whether E-Sports is a sport” is not only a debate on the conceptual level of sport, but also involves how to regulate human thinking mode about sport at the philosophical level. The originality of Chinese traditional Taoist thought and existentialism theory turns the concept debate in philosophy of sport to the thinking of the scientific legitimacy of philosophy of sport, and specifically shows the discussion of “how philosophy of sport can be possible”. On the one hand, it forms the discussion of “how can the combination of sport and philosophy be possible”, which leads to the criticism and turn of the thinking mode of philosophy of sport; On the other hand, it forms the discussion of “how to combine sport and philosophy”, which leads to the analysis and development of the internal dialectical logic and historical logic of the thinking mode of philosophy of sport. The reconstruction of the thinking mode, has solved the question of “whether E-Sports is a sport” and promoted the thinking mode of philosophy of sport from “thinking about sport” to “thinking in sport”.