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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... goals and identities, arising partly from our ethically informed emotional lives. Contrary to the everyday understanding of sportspersonship where one plays with ruthless efficiency to reach the goal while bending all possible rules to ...
... goal (that is to say a goal specified prior to the contest such as scoring more goals, jumping the furthest, and so on); (2) a set of means that limited the ways in which the goal could be legitimately achieved; (3) rules that define ...
Morality Plays Mike McNamee. along, and deciding on the precise goal and its manner of achievement as they went along their merry way? It is unlikely to be sure, but it is not logically impossible. Consider now a much stronger objection ...
... goal where the skill ofthe player was internally related to the achievement. Yet here we can imagine that the champion bog snorkeller will have to have efficient techniques (though not those recognised in swimming) to transport ...
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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 |