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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... chess, football, patience, the Olympic Games and children's games. Contra the idea set out in the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus Wittgenstein does not accept that a definition can be given for the essence of language. Rather, the ...
... chess games because football is played with a ball, and so is tennis, while tennis is played by two people, and so is chess. (Kovesi, 1972: 22) One might anticipate the following response: 'It is only when we know that these individuals ...
... chess. It is interesting to note, however that in Cuba, for example, chess is considered a sport. So that necessary condition appears not to hold or else the relevant Cuban institutions are ill-conceived in designating it thus. For the ...
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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 |