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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... coaches and sports physicians • Racism in sport and courageous role models • The place of sports in the good life Written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of sport, this book also powerfully unites the fields of sports ethics ...
... coaches Racism, racist acts and courageous role models Hubris, humility and humiliation: vice and virtue in sporting communities Schadenfreude in sports: envy, justice and self-esteem PART III Sports ethics, medicine and technology 9 ...
... coaches' (1998) was published in Ethics and Sport edited by myself and Jim Parry, the first book in our series of the same name. The essay has been revised in a number of ways showing the continuity between modern codes and the ancient ...
... coaches and officials, in pursuit of the internal goods of sports and their institutional promotion and protection. In the last chapter of this section, Chapter 4, I give a more fine-grained account of ethical development in and through ...
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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 |