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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... understanding ofthe wider social significance of sport. The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vicesis to situate ethics at the heart of sports via 'virtue-ethical' considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of Ancient ...
... understanding ofconceptual analysis since then and limited the scope ofmy ambitions as a result. An early version of Chapter 2 was published under the heading 'Physical education and the development of personhood' in the Physical ...
... understanding or even following its principal ceremony, Holy Mass, conducted in Latin, was unthinkable. One fairly widespread way of reducing the mysteriousness of religious morality was the enactment ofmorality plays. The precise ...
... understanding of sportspersonship where one plays with ruthless efficiency to reach the goal while bending all possible rules to one's advantage, I hold that sportspersonship is crucially related to this normative capacity of ...
... 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/permissibility of doping (e.g. fairness, harm ...
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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 |