Social Reality and Fitness-(Episode LX)

Fitness in Philosophy

Most people would agree that things like rocks, tables, chairs, the sun, and oceans are all real.

By real here, we mean something like: these things would exist even if humans didn't exist.

But what about social reality?

What about things that depend on humanity for their existence and yet have real power and influence?

Here are some examples

-Money

-The presidency of the United States

-Laws

-The existence of nation states

Take money for example. There's no inherent value or meaning to green pieces of paper (at least in the US) outside the meaning and value that humans have made up.

And yet, this doesn't mean it's imaginary either. A person with 1000 green pieces of paper with $100 printed on it wields a considerable amount of actual monetary power in the world.

Similarly, if humans didn't exist and have societies there would be no such concept or thing as "President of the United States',

And yet, even though humans made it up the person holding that office wields a considerable amount of power.

In this episode James and Robby discuss social reality and fitness. They ask and attempt to answer the following questions

-What is social reality?

-Why is it so important to the world we live in today?

-How do social reality and physical reality bump up against each other in fitness?

-What about things like points and prizes for fitness which don't have any reality outside of a social context?

-There's no movement such as "the Russian Kettlebell Swing" outside of human societal conventions and yet there are objective facts about how humans should hinge their hips, etc.

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