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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... Racism in sport and courageous role models • The place of sports in the good life Written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of sport, this book also powerfully unites the fields of sports ethics and medical ethics. It is ...
... Racism, racist acts and courageous role models Hubris, humility and humiliation: vice and virtue in sporting communities Schadenfreude in sports: envy, justice and self-esteem PART III Sports ethics, medicine and technology 9 Suffering ...
... for gymnasiarchos in Ancient Greece. A version of Chapter 6, like Chapter 4, was published jointly as 'The moral economy of racism and racist rationalisations in sport' with Jonathon Long in the International Review for Preface.
... racism with respect to the racist act/racist character distinction and also included discussion of role modelling in relation to racism and racial stereotypes. The following chapters (7 and 8) appeared first in the Journal of the ...
... racist literatures often present us with a simplistic dichotomy (either one is racist or not racist) I offer a dispositional account that holds that one cannot typically be considered a racist on the basis of a one-off act or utterance ...
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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 |