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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... idea of a responsibility for feelings of dominance over and antipathy to racialised others in sports. Focusing on the fact that the ethos of certain sports may still harbour racist sentiments, I offer an example of moral courage of two ...
... ideas and ideals that I have drawn from the settings of Ancient Greece. I hope that in drawing deeply and frequently from the quarry (though not the supermarket) of Ancient Greek culture I have resisted the idea that all we need in ...
... idea of recognising family resemblances rather than attempting forlornly to locate a conceptual essence is often accorded great status within the thought ofthe later Wittgenstein. In contrast to the picture theory of meaning which he ...
... idea of family resemblances as a family ofmeanings for a given concept. Ifthis artificial construction ofWittgenstein's suggestion is followed through one could conceivably end up with the following: 7 8 9 10 11 12 ghijk hijkl ijklm ...
... idea, that is to say the whole enterprise, is to consider the idea of conceptual revision. Suits, like so many others in different contexts, offers an analysis of the concept in a way that is ahistorical. It is as if the concept has ...
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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 |