The Study Of Leisure Activities And Its Contemporary Value In Philosophy Horizon

Leisure phenomenon has existed since ancient times, and it has tied withlabor and physiology as the basic survival state of development of people.Human rapid advancement into leisure society, with abundant material,enhancement of leisure-conscious, increased free time, and guarantee of therights. Thus, it is a inevitable phenomenon for public relaxation. As a specialhuman activity, leisure activities is a freedom and enjoyable experienceaccording to people’s needs. Leisure activities is an advanced existence toachieve self-improvement, self-development, self-transcendence. It has threebasic features: universal, innovation, freedom. The entities of leisure activitiesare real people, the intrinsic basis is free time, external condition is space. andthe three aspects of leisure activities are: object, process, and result.As an advanced existing form, leisure activities play an important role incurrent market economy, construction of ecological civilization, andconstruction of harmonious society. However, it result in the utilitarianism,materialistic, entertainment, patternism of leisure activities for the distortedleisure consciousness, lack of leisure skill, and alienation of consumerismsociety. As a measurement of handling the alienation of leisure activities, theeducation of leisure should focus on cultivating good leisure sense,establishing the correct values of leisure entity, enhancing the professionalskills of leisure entity.