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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... practices ofmoral 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 ...
... practices 4 Sport and ethical development PART II Vicious and virtuous sport 5 Codes of conduct and trustworthy coaches Racism, racist acts and courageous role models Hubris, humility and humiliation: vice and virtue in sporting ...
... practices, institutions and virtues” published in the Journal ofthe Philosophy ofSport (1995a) while Chapter 4 is a significantly revised version of 'Ethics, psychology and sports: back to an Aristotelian “museum of normalcy”' which ...
... practice is unknown, so I offer here the merest sketch to make the point I wish to at the beginning ofthis book on the ethics of sports. Around this time, travelling circuses not only brought entertainment to the masses, but typically ...
... practices first developed in the work of Alisdair MacIntyre. It is in sports, conceived historically as social practices, that the virtues can be developed and sustained by sportspersons, administrators, coaches and officials, in ...
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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 |