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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... an attitude of moral minimalism, the like of which is often crystallised in codes of conduct. This institutionalised response to ethical difficulty and the attitude it often spawns are not new. Indeed it is 2 Introduction.
... responses to vulnerability and promote shared understanding of our humanness in and outside sport. In Chapter 10, I offer an original line of discussion in an often tired debate. I first sketch the typical arguments regarding the im ...
... response: 'It is only when we know that these individuals are members of a family that we test them to see if they have empirical similarities.' On this reading the resemblances themselves do not make them members ofthe family. Rather ...
... response to Wittgenstein's challenge to 'look and see' and a refutation of his antiessentialist line of thinking. It was argued by Suits that all sports were a type of game. His account was not circular for he also argued that there ...
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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 |