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. |
From inside the book
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... rules in the ethical conduct of sports coaches' (1998) was published in Ethics and Sport edited by myself and Jim Parry, the first book in our series of the same name. The essay has been revised in a number of ways showing the ...
... rules and rule books do not supplant virtues and opens Introduction: Ancient rituals and modern morality plays.
Morality Plays Mike McNamee. rules and rule books do not supplant virtues and opens the way for a close consideration of a family of vices and virtues that are to be found in sport throughout all levels of competition. The final part ...
... rules and sanctions, can better underscore the types of action the rule book attempts crudely to foster. In Chapter 6, I offer an account of racism as a vice. While the sociological and political anti-racist literatures often present us ...
... rule-governed contests with a gratuitous logic, and which necessarily embody an ethical dimension. Defining sports as games On the national holiday that occurs each year at the end of August, the World Championships for a not very well ...
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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 |