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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... we cannot logically determine a point at which we can say doping is wrong. In contrast, I argue in defence of the bans on certain pharmacological means of performing enhancement via the notion of slippery Introduction 3.
Morality Plays Mike McNamee. pharmacological means of performing enhancement via the notion of slippery slopes. Moreover, developing the aretaic position in sports ethics, I offer two vices that characterise cheats who dope and which ...
... Notions such as blame, praise, responsibility, courage, cowardice, vice and so on, are likely to occur in all modern societies by virtue ofthe sorts of social creatures that human beings are and the forms of social organization they ...
... notion of areteA, or excellence, was not strictly determined by social position, that there existed some possibility to achieve this state irrespective of the perception that only certain classes of persons could attain it. It is not ...
... notion, after Bambrough (1968: 189), is commonly illustrated in the following manner where numbers 1–6 are the names of certain games and the letters beneath them are their observable features or characteristics: 1 2 3 4 5 6 abcde bcdef ...
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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 |