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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... vice and virtue in sporting communities Schadenfreude in sports: envy, justice and self-esteem PART III Sports ethics, medicine and technology 9 Suffering in and for sport ix xi 20 43 69 87 89 110 7 6 129 8 145 163 165 10 Doping ...
... vices that attend our attitudes towards otherness and reinforce the idea of a responsibility for feelings of dominance over and antipathy to racialised others in sports. Focusing on the fact that the ethos of certain sports may still ...
... vices that characterise cheats who dope and which underwrite our perception of the undesirability of those who cheat thus. I return, as I do throughout the book, to the Greek catalogue of vices and virtues. We can understand the ...
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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 |