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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... lives. Contrary to the everyday understanding of sportspersonship where one plays with ruthless efficiency to reach the goal while bending all possible rules to one's advantage, I hold that sportspersonship is crucially related to this ...
... lives: “playing with a straight bat”; “keeping one's eye on the ball”; “a level playing field”; “moving the goalposts”; or the widespread usages of a “slam-dunk”, “homerun” or “strike out” and so on. Reaching deeper, one need only look ...
... lives may go better too. Williams puts the general point eloquently: Still more there are differences, differences we must approve, between ourselves and the ancient Greeks. The question is how these differences are to be understood. My ...
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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 |