Sports, Virtues and Vices: Morality PlaysRoutledge, 21 մյս, 2008 թ. - 248 էջ Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport. The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vices is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via ‘virtue ethical’ considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece. The central theme running through the book is that sports are effectively modern morality plays: universal practices of moral education for the masses and - when coached, officiated and played properly - a valuable vehicle for ethical development. Including a wealth of contemporary sporting examples, the book explores key ethical issues such as:
Written by one of the world's foremost sports philosophers, this book powerfully unites the fields of sports ethics and medical ethics. It is essential reading for all students and scholars with an interest in the ethics and philosophy of sport. |
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... activities, the pursuit of which are rendered more difficult by the rules that define the activity and which we agree to be governed by in pursuit of athletic victory. I offer a critique ofthose essentialists who seek to find some kind ...
... activity, the following account is offered on their web site (see Llanwrtyd Well Coming Events, 2007): Competitors have to complete two lengths of a 60 yard [50m] trench cut through the peat bog in the quickest time possible, wearing ...
... activity. The problem at the heart of the definitional project is almost as old as philosophy itself. Aristotle thought that a definition was a phrase signifying a thing's essence. This common approach allows us to think of a definition ...
... activity that contained them was sufficient to be classified a sport. Suits argued that for an activity to be called a game it must have (1) a pre-lusory goal (that is to say a goal specified prior to the contest such as scoring more ...
... activity. (Young, 1984: 171–2) Here then, we have at least a plausible candidate for an exception to what should be ... activities were not play-like then they cannot have been games. But to stipulate such a meaning is itself like ...
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Part II Vicious and virtuous sport | 87 |
Part III Sports ethics medicine and technology | 163 |
Notes | 206 |
References | 219 |
Index | 232 |