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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... institutions and virtues” published in the Journal ofthe Philosophy ofSport (1995a) while Chapter 4 is a significantly revised version of 'Ethics, psychology and sports: back to an Aristotelian “museum of normalcy”' which appeared in ...
... institution as well as the seat oflearning. The vast majority ofthe populace, however, were illiterate and the possibility of their understanding or even following its principal ceremony, Holy Mass, conducted in Latin, was unthinkable ...
... institutional promotion and protection. In the last chapter of this section, Chapter 4, I give a more fine-grained account of ethical development in and through sport that pays close attention to the emotions in harmony with our ...
... institutional needs for 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 ...
... institution as he called it, with its universalising scope of duties owed to all humankind was not present in Ancient Greek times. And though he is sceptical of this claim, he argues that progress was indeed made even in the epoch of ...
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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 |