ABSTRACT
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of things in the most general and abstract of terms. Metaphysics is one of the four main branches of philosophy, traditionally conceived, together with epistemology, logic and axiology. Sport has an intimate relation with the notion of empowered agency because we can see sport as a way of encouraging through reward the maximum display of an agent’s powers, pitting the powers of one competitor against those of another and measuring the greatest display. The most significant case of mutual manifestation is in team sports, where the individual members must form a functioning mutual manifestation partnership with their team mates. The power to win the game is a candidate for an emergent power, found at the level of the whole, where it is a mutual manifestation, belonging to the whole team, of the powers relevant to football.
